Agreed universally, charity speaks
volumes of the values of the giver
in the understanding that the privileged
are obligated to share their good fortune
with those whom fortune overlooked.
It lightens the heart to know one's
generosity benefits those less fortunate
than ourselves who need only a hand up
enabling them to share quality of life
that is ours. Take as example the staff
surprising the school custodian who
daily walks to work given the surprise
of his life, keys to a car bought for him
the beaming faces of staff confronting
his amazement. In the video circulating
to great applause he stands there, slim
and muscular surrounded by mountains
of female flesh who drive themselves to
work daily. Will he soon resemble them
forfeit his good health derived from work
and exercise to please a vision of plenty?
If on his janitor's salary he has far more
pressing obligations than car ownership
who will pay for the auto upkeep now that
he is obligated to make use of the gift lest
he offend his benefactors who immensely
pleased themselves by a public display of
charity in removing self-respect and agency
from the possession of one they pitied?
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