THE ART OF GIVING

Some times we tend to think that everyone wants the best for us. Have you ever wondered why? Do you even know the past of this person you depend on? Yes, people change with time but some thing just cant be forgotten, it will affect you in different ways from the day to day decisions, how you carry out your self with or without people around you, how you judge people or view someone be it a friend, a partner or even an elderly. All these things I have been speaking about contribute to the art of giving. Moreover, we also know that giving will payback not necessarily immediately but maybe later, it might be your children, your grandchildren or it might your parent or friend or anyone you relate to. Many tend to take advantage of this art for personal benefits from person to institutions to companies. Some do it for fame or marketing or money or favors or friends, some use it as investment, directly and indirectly and still come back complaining that they are not getting blessings or anything in return. This is because their motives are negative and beneficial therefore there is no blessings in that.

Giving to me is not supposed to be because you have excess, but because you have access. We all know that you cannot make everyone happy or solve everyone’s problem. But by helping someone you can get to help someone you never thought you could help. How? Come to think of it, you help door one and two and have nothing left for door three, then a good Samaritan sees helping out and decides to help you do the good work you are doing, with their help you can be able to help door three and four and maybe five to door ninety. This continues and people join in to help and thereby helping more people than you could have done alone and the pattern continues all because of you good heart of trying to help. Never take advantage of someone who is in need, the table could easily turn and it will obviously not be in your side. When you do It from your heart, you will feel the ease and comfort of doing it. I would advice the you find your reason for doing it before you start doing it. As I wrote earlier, we come from different backgrounds and it obviously affects many aspects of our lives and fortunately and unfortunately our art of giving happens to be one of them. We all know that the fortunate enough will have plenty to share than those who are not financially stable and maybe have limited resources. The difference comes in your reason to giving, be it emotionally, financially or socially.

Those who come from emotional, socially or financially unstable and unsupported backgrounds can relate with similar situation or someone who is going through what they went through therefore want to help out more thereby making it harder for both them and the one in need. How is that? let me give a practical example, I have a hundred shillings with me, and I have to go for a job interview. I meet someone and they ask me for help, maybe they haven’t eaten for two days and I can easily relate with how they feel because I have gone through that myself. What will you do? I personally will not help this person but go for the job interview which in return give me enough money to come back and help more people like him who need my help. That’s an art of giving, I have used one to help more then one. I surely have more on giving and the connection to our day to day blessings and relationship wit others. Many have found their purpose in life through this art and many have been helped directly and indirectly through this art from the unstable to the stable people. Give and it will be given back, directly indirectly, now or later, today or tomorrow, this year or next year.