Tis The Season To Be Jolly!..
Christmas is a time when many of us have the opportunity to relax, reflect, and enjoy the company of our friend’s family away from our usual fast-paced lives. We chill out and spend countless hours of the day watching repeats of Home Alone and eat pretty much anything in outrageous quantities. This all coupled with gifts (everyone loves gifts right?) makes it a great time of the year. Christmas isn’t like this for everyone, though some of us are not privileged enough to enjoy the fruits of presents, family and friends. For some, Christmas acts more as a reminder of what they don’t have opposed to what they do have. A video which really brought this home for me is one I watched over a year ago from Tai Lopez: The Hidden Benefits Of Charity: Why Giving Is Important
Tai is a YouTuber which regularly gets negative reception largely due to his garage advert which was pretty much splashed across all videos on YouTube a few years ago. Although, away from the YouTube advertising videos we all see, he regularly provides thought provoking and knowledgeable content with great life lessons.
Tai, in this video, views charity as one of the aspects of which you can never go broke doing, alongside buying books and going to seminars. The example which stuck with me and my reasons for going is with a child in the mall. Based on a challenge set by Tai try to give an amount which makes you feel uncomfortable, a child gives $20(which was a lot to him) to a homeless person in the mall and when he got home his sister gave him $100. The truthfulness of this story is irrelevant, I am a firm believer in the more you give is the more you will receive.
The purpose of this post was not to make you feel bad or urges you to donate to give to charity against your own free will.
With the Christmas holiday season approaching us with pace my standpoint is value what you do have because there is most definitely someone less fortunate than you in the world. If you can give something back it doesn’t even have to be monetary why you not give something back?
Written by Courtney.
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