Imagine one day that you don't have much. That you are destitute. That you are almost living on the streets and are relying on the charity of others.Now imagine that one day you are sleeping on the street and on a rainy evening, you wake up and of the many party goers walking past you one stops and asks if you are hungry. Of course you will respond with a Yes. You are hungry. You last found something to eat in a bin yesterday afternoon.
So this smartly dressed individual bends down to your level and hands you a half eaten sandwich, "I couldn't eat it."And you look at the sandwich and think, "Ok, well it's food.", and you bite into it feeling the taste and texture in your mouth. It may be half eaten, but it sates your hunger well.Now my question is, how many of give charity like this? I don't mean the half eaten sandwich literally. But it was a rejected item of food that this person gave away as charity. It was something REJECTED.
We fill our wardrobes with clothes, which we regularly purge and put them in black bin bags and drop them off to the charity shop. And do we pick our best clothes? I don't think so. We pick our worst. Those which we do not deem fit enough to wear. Those we bought on an impulse (with a fleeting feeling of guilt), and those which we simply do not like anymore. So what makes us think that what we do not want, our rejected items would be good enough for someone else? (excerpt)
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