My senior colleague and me, were returning from our client meeting about 30 Km from Bangalore city. And since both of us share a nice rapport, we were having a free wheeling discussion on our careers, family etc. He narrated about his struggles in life working in Mumbai, Kerala and Bangalore. His outlook on how the career progresses and how we try and manage our family along with all this. Hmmm… he was telling me how on a holistic perspective, God had been kind to him. Although he never was rolling around in money and happiness, yet he says that there has always been a help from up above and that HE has always taken care of him in tough times.
Then he said that he can now afford the various luxuries of life and he donates Rs. 500 to some temple and charity. He said that it was a way of giving back to the society. Ever since ( its been a week now )- this has been going around in my mind.
Is this a way of giving back to the society?
Many people have a thinking that they have to give something back to the society. And donating money to temples and charity is a way of doing that. I am not sure if it’s the right thing. I mean…. I dunno . But for the first time I really am unable to frame my thoughts on this and that is precisely why I have put this on my blog before writing about it.
I myself have donated to charity and I felt nice about it. But then I never had the feeling that I am giving back to the society. I just felt like any ordinary thing. I am ashamed to say this, but I just felt like I just gave a rupee to the road side beggar. I mean, I made a donation to an organization and yet, I felt as if it was a …. Dunooo…… man ! This sucks ! how can I not feel anything and yet feel so much ? :-(
What is giving back to the society ? Can anybody really explain ?
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