Sunday, December 24, 2006

*Power Of Giving *


We live in an ephemeral world of violence, natural calamities, and suffering. Is there anything that we can do diminish the pain that the others are going through? Yes of course , We can give .All of us has something to give it could be money , wisdom, time, compassion and loads of other things.

Giving ideas and resources can dramatically improve the world we live in. You might have come across this ,” We may only be one person in the world.But we may be the world to one person.” This may be clichéd but it still has substance.

Do we always live to be ‘what we want to be?’ or ‘what we were meant to be?’ our destinies would be decided by what we give and not by what we get.

“World's income distribution gives a very telling story. Ninety four percent of the world income goes to 40 percent of the population while sixty percent of people live on only 6 per cent of world income. Half of the world population lives on two dollars a day.”- Muhammed Yunus in his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech

Jarring Reality:

One out of every four people in the world is hungry ,and we eat four meals a day and waste food too.

One billion people in the world do not have enough clean water, and we never care to close the taps.

Atleast 200 million people are suffering the horror of war, imprisonment and torture and we simply don’t care

Every few seconds a child dies from a preventable disease, but the doctors these days are more worried about their fees.

One seventh of the world population is illiterate and we waste our time in school and college,without realizing how fortunate we are.

There are millions of instances where people are generous, some in their donations , some in their efforts ,but all involve compassion. So shudnt we try and bring about a positive change in the society by the little things which we can?