Charity

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Charity

 (By Suhana Ahmed ) 


Image By:- Sukriti Singh

Charity: A Path to Happiness for All.

"Happiness"- an emotion everyone deserves to feel. People get happiness from different experiences and things. Happiness is when someone achieves what they dreamt of, or even when they take a step closer to it. Happiness is when they get to live the life they wish for. Happiness is when they unknowingly smile remembering all the good moments.


A toddler gets happy when they get their favourite toy or eat their favourite food. Happiness and the reason behind it might differ from one person to another, but there are always going to be similarities, some things that will connect people.


It is easier for a privileged mass to get a claim on toys, amazing food, caring parents, good schooling and a lot more things. But unaware about this world, there live people without a budget to even fill their stomach, there are children who have no parents and either live in orphanages or on the streets, there are senior citizens who have been abandoned by their families, there are families who can't afford to take a break from their work because they work on a daily wage, there are children who have to give up on their education to support their family's financial status. They get far less than what they should be given, far less than what they deserve.


That is where the concept of charity comes into action. Before talking about it, understanding the definition of the word is necessary. Charity is the act of voluntarily helping people in need in any way possible. It is helping those in need, giving a part of the extra part of our lives to the ones who do not reach half as close to the whole of life. 


If anyone has ever visited an orphanage, they would know how happy the children would be on meeting the visitors. How they would seem to want to play, how their eyes will shine when they're talked to nicely or are taken a small present. That is because they're given something they feel deprived of.


Humans tend to take things for granted. Most of the time it is only when we lose something do we realize the significance of it. That is why a person who finds it so difficult to earn food, worships it when they finally get to eat.


That way when we donate, people receive and enjoy the essence of gaining it. Every time anybody donates money to NGOs or other charitable forms and roots, there is a high possibility that a family gets a meal or a child gets to study. 


Whenever we take time out of our schedules to go meet the people at NGOs, they will have someone to talk to and socialize. Humans are social animals; codependent for survival. We need each other, some more than the others, but we can't live alone, and thus, we find happiness in each other.


If our charitable funds make a child get educated, then we help a child make a better future, get more and better opportunities and a better lifestyle, and at least one less problem.


But this is not the end of it. It's not only the receiver that gets benefitted. There's a saying that goes along the lines of,  "Giving makes both the giver and receiver happy." What this proverb tries to imply is that when a person helps someone with anything, it is not only the person who receives the help that gains happiness, but the giver feels equally positive and happy if not more.


There are many reasons that support this statement, many of which are scientifically backed. Taking an example, we are aware of the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement. It has been going on for centuries, but it raised a higher spark recently when a police officer suffocated and killed a black protestor in the United States of America. That incident in a way united the whole world into protesting, collecting funds and signing petitions. It is one of the most required movements in the world, yes, and it benefits all of us. That is how everything works. We have all the privileges, but if the ones who don't get those privileges, extend support to get them. It will only make us happier and the world a better place. 


Likewise, due to the BLM, people united and helped each other, fought for the protestors who were demanding equal rights. Collected money for the ones affected due to the brutality and stood up for right.


It is said that generosity is a natural human trait and if humans were selfish, they would have gone extinct ages ago. Even the most selfish person has the ability to find happiness in sharing, to smile when they make someone else happy. People help their friends in a blink of an eye, go to such extents for the ones they love. That is what makes homo sapiens actually humans. There are multiple organisations working for similar causes, be it aiding the poor, women,the LGBTQIA+ community, minorities or animals, and they do it irrespective of if they would gain anything from it or not, and if that isn't enough of a proof, there is nothing more that can do it.


We are the kind of species who change emotions according to the characters and situations while watching movies. We get so easily affected by the fictional world that it is impossible that reality cannot budge us. Emotions are contagious, people smile when the person in front of them is smiling and it is completely involuntary. That is what makes us happy and humans, we find happiness in helping each other. We just have to give it a little thought.


You don't have enough money to donate? That is not enough reason to stop. Help can be given in so many ways. One can help by volunteering and giving their time and knowledge to the ones in need makes everyone involved happy. It gives people someone to have faith in and something to hold on to.


Humans are the species that are designed to support each other. Maybe not everybody has realized it, but there is a person who will find bliss in giving others happiness, we just have to try doing it the proper way. We have one life and what better way to live than live happily! It is perhaps the feeling of bliss from giving that has embedded generosity in us and the best way to deal with it is to embrace it.



Disclaimer:-

The opinions expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author. The facts and opinions appearing in the article do not reflect the views of Light de Literacy and LDL does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.






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