Cynical Philanthropy

There are emails going around, much like the bushfire in Melbourne about donating money to the red cross. Calamity driven generosity is a hype - if you really are generous, it shouldn't take a bushfire to start giving. Giving is about living it not basking in it.

Try something closer to home - say Hi to your neighbours, bake a cake and cross the road for once to appreciate the act of giving, be considerate to others and most of all give when you are not held at gunpoint in fear of people knowing the real you don't really care much for fanfare.

Lives lost crosses all boundaries - parochialism doesn't.  Honestly people does it take that much to return to the basic human instinct or is it easier to close a blind eye when it is convenient!!

I am cynical and I don't pretend otherwise...