Do we really care?

The main thing you got to have is 1.Dedication. 2.you should spend more time with what you want to do. 3.You should have money. 4.You should not bother about the surroundings you are in like family members or near & dear ones. 5.You should not be married or even if you are married you spouse should not give you headaches. 6.Your donations should not go to the wrong hands. lot & lots more. MOST OF ALL YOU SHOULD HAVE THE WILL

I think if you really have a care heart to other people or animal, you will keep going of what you do now, even there is a lot of challenge there. You will sacrifice all of your thing to help people and animal. All of it start with your love to them, if everyone don't want to sacrifice for them, who will save this world? Some one must be sacrifice to save this world from destruction.

Hi mimpi dear! That is so very true. There are so many people who really care about the problems in this world and about sufferings. Words of affection and sympathy are always generously expressed but most of the time it stopped in words. That is one of the sad realities of life. I do admire people who are proactive but at the same time can't blame a lot of people who are very much willing to help yet do not have the means to do so. I admit that there are times that I can be proactive on certain charitable activities when an opportunity to do so comes. However, most of the time, I can't since I have really any money nor the means to help others in need. But whatever and whenever I can, I will do so. Take care and blessings to you. lovelots..faith

I care for the environment. that's the reason why I recycle, do some waste segregation and plant trees and vegetables. I cannot support charities even if I want to do so because I don't have the time and money to spare.

Yes Mimpi...you are absolutely right.Most of us are indeed concerned about the under privileged whom we look upon with pity and sympathy and also about preserving the environment .But unfortunately not many have the time or the inclination to do any thing creative about it and limit their reactions to blaming the government and the authorities .Most people are too busy trying to make ends meet and hardly spare a thought or try to go out of their way to help such people.I feel its the duty of each onbe of us to take up some voluntary service in any possible way we can,by sparing the money or the time for helping at least one or a few of these less fortunate persons......This attitude can really reap rich results........I have infact joined an NGO organisation a few months back and we are pooling toegther our resesorces and energy to do some activities for the cause of humanity ,in our own small ways..........

Well mimpi we do think about the concerns of other people but what i feel is that we do not put our opinions and thinking into actions,the reason being is that we are always too preoccupied with ourselves.Our concerns,requirements,needs and aspirations prove hindrance in the way of successful implementation of our genuine thoughts for others and the person who just wins the battle of oneself with the cause of others can only help the society in distress.

A very good question Mimpi. How often is it that i have thought about doing my bit and then why i was not able to really go forward. The most recent of this was a couple of days back. I was returning from the medical shop and a middle aged man sort of collapsed on the centre of the road. While a few passers by helped him to the side, nobody really bothered to help him beyond that. I don't really know what made me get into a frame of mind to go up to him and ask him what was wrong. He replied saying that his head was spinning as he had not eaten anything the whole day, as he did not have any money. It was a genuine case as i could see his condition. I quickly bought him some bread and tea and asked him to relax a while and then get going home. I'm digressed a bit here Mimpi, but what followed in mind was this. 1.Why did the people not do more for him ? 2. I did a little bit and it really made me wonder why is it that i have not been able to do more for all that i care about ? Thinking deep, 1. When something really affects us deep down and hits our concience. Remember all the rallies and the motivation people got after the Mumbai attacks. 2. We are so preoccupied with settling down our lives and making ourselves comfortable, that we are self centred and would like to think about the world and envoirnment after that. 3. We are too comfortable with what we have.Getting involved means sacrifice and detachment and that we are not ready to do. 4. Some of us have our problems and issues and we need to get those solved. 5. Then there is family, we have our responsibilities to think about. I have a great friend who i always think about when it comes to involvement in causes like this. She has been able to do a lot and motivate a lot of people to get inolved as well. At the same time, i think maybe we are trying to do too much at time. Maybe we should give it a small start. And it's not about giving money alone. It's actually about giving a whole hearted effort in terms of our time and devotion. It need not be in a far away area, but somehwere close to us. And the motivation. To me the biggest motivation here would be from my inner feelings on seeing what my involvement can do. Like the smile on the man's face and the tears in his eyes wheni gave him that bread and tea. That is the biggest motivation i feel.

Hmmmmm Well Brutal truth Is That The Max We can Do Is Share Some Money but u r right to offer ur Physical Help, Ur Time, its Not piece of Cake for every one. Those are Really True Human with God Gifted Motivation

alokn99 has expressed it so well. I often feel certain emptiness and I crave to make more of a difference in the world. I feel overwhelmed by my thoughts; there are so many of us, surely we can change things? Why are we not doing it? We are so consumed with our own lives and trapped in the day to day activities that keep us going until there is no time for anything else. I've had visions of walking away from my life and heading to Uganda with World Vision and get in there, get my hands dirty and make a difference and then I check the time and run to collect my daughter from school and here I am again trapped by the little details of life. I got as far as sponsoring a little girl and that was easy enough but there is so much more to be done. The problem is that we are all busy and I am working on a way to slow life down so we can decided to involve ourselves in more important priorities and find the motivation to make that difference. It is a matter of stopping long enough to smell the roses and decide there's got to be a better way.

hi mimpi,every one here have given their thoughts so powerful to move and help others. I guess and I believe that every day we have the opportunity to help and do something good for others. But oftentimes we ignore the chance or just simply did'nt recognize it because of being so busy with our own lives. But you know, if we can try to simplified it and look around, like giving our shoulder to cry on, when a friend needs it.A simple tap on a shoulder to give hope to someone. Or a listening ears when nobody wants to listen to someone. They will go in a distance. If we can inspire at least just one man to move on and have hope in their heart and continue living a good life, I guess it's already a milestone. Reaching out does not need to be far,we just have to open our doors and build bridges. smile...

We want to do so many things, we want to get involve with charitable actions, we want to help everyone but there are always reasons that stop us. We can do all these things when we are that stable enough to have everything we need and things are in proper order. For the mean time we can just do little care we can. First in the family, how man of our grndchildren and other relatives need help and care. Then, to our neighbors, the streetchildren, those beggars and those victims of fire and floods and any other disaster. Everyone has the willingness to do her share only that hindrances prevented them. So we can just do whatever we can maybe later we can do everything we can't do today.

All of people's passion,enthuisams,power,motive,etc, in my opinion,they all come from peoloe's love and considerable for others. They have such kindly heart,to do everything truly full of love. In order not to cause people so many diseases,they tried to protect the environment.In order not to make the adopted child hungary and can grow up healthy and educational,they teach them and supply them something..... All those similar things are always deeply moved by people,if everyone shows a litter love to others,the world will become more beautiful. But recently,many people make use of people's love and sympathy to cheat,that's really too bad impact.We can not tell difference from which kind of people needs help and which ones are cheaters.

Hello Mimpi, nice topic. I guess most people are not informed about such things and they are not aware also of what to do. If we are given an information and awareness about this things, then no need for us to laid back but initiate our very best to help. Sometimes helping such sensitive things of taking care of animals might need an expertise about such field. But if people are informed well, then add some initiative to do the act will really help. About adoption, don't you think it needs papers also i mean , in black and white. Not easy to do such adoptions without the government to interfere, or authorities to interfere. Happy Mylotting!

i have my concernes and i do feel for these people but at the same time i want to live my life and not have more stress and unhappyness about people i dont evan know, i may sound very selfcenterd but you have your own things to worry about. i'm not saying i dont give to charity becouse i do and i do my bit for the environment but at the same time you cant give waht you dont have. But for the people who do all these wonderful things for the world then good on them i hope it makes them happy and i hope that in a few years they dont look back and think about all the other things they could of been doing.

I have not done anything in Big way. I have donated money for eathquack victim, war victims etc. May be I have not seen it that way that it will be done like that in big way. there are many things that also make me think.

PARTICIPATION IN VARIOUS MEANS ~ Regarding from where they were motivated is actually nature-nurture-learning. Once life in the situation of no choice, the best pragmatic way is to participate in that circles of calamities or predicaments. Participation by means of using whatever resources available and make use to it. WE DON'T LAIDBACK ~ Like what you have done by posting this discussion, meaning that you've already participated in their areas of calamities by spreading their life news to us here on mylot. Your little contribution do carries and weighted great participation value, your small input does generates enormous brain impact to us to let and lend our seconds of time by sighting their ordeals in our mind. Thanks for sharing your discussion to all of us here on myLot. DO WE REALLY CARE OR FANCY THAT WE DO? ~ My answer is "YES", we do really care as caring is very subjective and it refers to which thing takes first. The principle of caring is we must take care to whom closed to us regardless of linear distance or geographical factor in rendering care. The only thing is the principle in prioritization, the great key of sharing the care and careful value. Justly like to one middle finger, should take care the both fingers next to it(left and right side). Once found the neighboring finger in well done and healthy, the middle finger has to look at both to the next jump fingers which are; little finger and thumb. Same thing in our life, we must discern ourselves about which thing should care "give and take" first. To avoid "feeding the goats but our kids left with no milk".

Hi friend, Yes, we have to really care about who suffered in floods.earthquakes.tsunami affected people,not protecting the environment.We have support and help to poor people,charity, trust. In future i will also open a charity trust for poor people. So every one help the poor people sponsor to charity trust and save the environment. have a nice day.

This is a very nice question that we really have to ponder. In our small village, my friend really wanted to share some of her time by teaching and giving fun for the kids, she had talked about it a lot of times then. And I guess, an opportunity came, coz she was able to think about giving activities to the kids here in our village. Last January we had an Art Activity where the kids really had fun, and last February we had a Valentine's Activity where the kids had drawn and painted. And in this coming Easter, we will be having another Activity. I am helping my friend since I also wanted to share my time with them and at the same time I would like my kids to experience socializing with other kids in our village. So I guess I get my motivation from my friend and my kids.

That's a thought provoking question really. Do I care, yes. Enough to drop everything and go help out, no. I don't think it's because of lack of caring for what is going on in our world today, but more so because I have so much to be tied to here at home. Family, children, grandchildren. Now, if I were not the wife, mother and grandmother would I? I don't know. I think that people that can drop everything and devote their time to a cause are pretty terrific people. They aren't afraid. I think we can get stuck in the rut of what is "normal living" and forget what it's like to be free. Free from worrying about money, a new car and the other things that are pounded into our heads as what are basic neccessities. I think we form these ideas early on and in all reality, have no real concept of going without a meal for 3 or 4 days or having no running water in our homes or even indoor pumping. Even the concept of teaching a child to read can be unreal to us because our ideals are so different. Would I help more if I could, who's to say I can't. I know I do volenteer at the homeless shelter, I've boxed canned goods and meat to a neighbor going through a hard time, or watched children because someone couldn't afford daycare for that 2 hours until they got home from work. In all reality, I think we all do help in our own ways. It saddens me that there is so much need out there, but I also know that I can look out my door and help a neighbor in need too. So, I don't think I could just pack up and move it out to help with world wide relief, but I also know I'd never shut the door on a person that needed in my own home town either. As to the are we concerned yet laid back? I still think it has a lot to do with how we preceive as our own neccessities over others. Yes, I could help, but if I send them $20.00 a month, I can't get that new car and the old one is getting bad. Or I could spend a month off to help with the tsunami, but then I'd have to not pay a housepayment or I'd have to spend more money going there then I can afford to take. It's a vicious cycle. Where we would love to, I think most people program themselves that they can't.

It is very hard to really care in a world that is so full of hate and violence, and I think most people like to think and show they care because it is simply the done thing. However there is also a majority of people who really do care about how other people are in the world, and care about their pain and suffering and really do want to help out. Its just a shame that most aid goes through corrupt govements first and so never actually reaches the people it needs to.