Posted by Camille Dumont on August 23, 2004, at 21:57:14
In reply to Kidneys and Altruism - your thoughts?, posted by JenStar on August 23, 2004, at 20:21:06
Well for me any act of charity is not selfless as it does bring you a sense of meaning and of doing good ... but the great thing about is that it can also help someone else.
I think today we tend to focus on such superficial things. We think about our money, we think about our security ... and sometimes it blinds us ... we see only the future and forget ot see the present ... and the years pass by and we only see what is ahead, not what is here now and I think many opportunities to do good now are lost.
It may sound silly but my rats are a great life lesson for that. They don't live very long ... between two and three years. To me it seems short, but not to them. I worry about how old they will live but not them. They don't care, what matters to them is whether they are happy right now, in the present momment. It doesn't matter if tomorrow is going a good day or bad day because if they are feeling good right now, then its all that counts, they are perfectly happy in that small amount of time with not a care for the future.
I'm deviating a bit but the point I'm trying to bring is that often it seems with put to tomorrow the goodness we could do today. Sometimes you realise that very very small acts can make so much good, that just a tiny cost to you can mean a great gift to someone else ... if you put it back in perspsective.
poster:Camille Dumont
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