Helping everybody is not a matter of power, but perhaps wisdom. I remember Agent Smith in The Matrix said, when the machine first created the Matrix, it was perfect. I dont know how they did it, but they figured it out. It was a world where everybody is happy, there are no hunger or disease. Everybody live a perfect and filfull life. But people can not accept that reality, the society fall apart, and they have to destroy everything and rebuild. Then Smith said – “as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery”. I believe it too, we dont want to be happy, we want to try to be happy.

I will go read the part 2 of this post now.

Make a Wish does seem a bit over the top now that you mention it. But it’s all relative isn’t it?

What you are thinking now is probably what God is thinking everyday of its eternal life. Who do I help? Who do I not help? And in fact who do I punish? But before we going into the “why”, let’s take a moment and think about the “how”.

Remember when we were little kids, mom said go buy some eggs, we take our bicycle and ride to the little shop at the street corner. We pick out some pretty eggs and we give the shop keeper the money. Mission Accomplished! Choice was not part of this exercise. Today to buy the same eggs, you as a well educated young woman will consider all sorts of things. How to pay for it, in what way, cash or card? Where do I get it from, where is cheaper, where is easier to park, do I need to get anything else from the same place, is it busy at this time? Free range egg to support the cause or factory egg? All that just for the little round thing, why is that? Because now you are aware the choices.

Awareness is both a blessing and a curse. Because now instead of buying the damn egg and eat it, the weight of the whole world and the future of yourself and the mankind are on your shoulders. This morning I spent more than an hour on buying an external hard drive, because I can buy from anywhere in the world. On brands that are base anywhere in the world.

The funny thing is there is no right answer, I base my decision on some arbitrary requirements, and right away I will admit I did not consider “everything” and I did not base on my decision on 100% reliable information. Although the chance of me getting a workable external hard drive at the end is quite high, but I can not be certain the money I spent will match my original intention. And I will definitely not have been picking the best product out there. That is an awareness itself, not only you are aware you have choices, but you are also aware you do not have all the choices including the best one.

Ok charity~ First thing is everybody and I mean EVERYBODY thinks they need help. Just look at those CEOs who fly in private jet and pay themselves millions of dollars bonus, think they need government to bail them out. And indeed everybody can use your money to improve their life and arguably a lot of people are worse off than us. So this is very much down to your preference, you can justify your opinion in any way you like. But the important thing is don’t feel bad about doing charity. It’s like you gave all your spare change to the poor guy then turn the corner and see another poor woman with her baby.

Everyday my god-like hero character is trying to help people, but only to find there are more people waiting for him to help. But that is what defines him. Charity is not measured by the amount of effort you contribute today, but by the thought of you will continue tomorrow.