Charity

Charity...hmmm...
Everyone knows the meaning of charity but does everyone knows that charity doesn't stop at a point although the "event" has end?!
I was chatting with a secondary schoolmate whom also introduce me to Tzu Chi Foundation and i realise that to do charity is not that simple as what we see, a normal charity society will organize an event like pay a visit to old folks home etc. and at the end of the day the old people at there will be very happy and feel sad at the same time because after today they have to wait till another day another group of people come to visit them. So does this call a good charity event? yes, i also agree that there must be a full-stop for such event but what do we learn from this kind of activities? do we learn how loneliness they are being alone in their bed? Many see me as walking around doing nothing and pass my day doing nothing but in the other side of me i do join Ci Qing activities although I still new in this side, many(i think la) cannot accept or even think that i will not go for these kind of activities because it just not "me"...human will change pls!!!
haha...the main point is I really learn a lot from the activities that I have join. So at the begining of the part I said charity doesn't stop at a point and you will question me," so what is your so call continue chairty activities?"...=.=
Take it this way, Tze Chi concept is that at the end of the day, for example give support in terms of money and daily stuff to poor, we must pay them a visit every month to see how they are doing and see whether we need to add in or change plan for them getting a better living. We are not that kind of give and take, we teach they how to make living, go for work, there is no free meal in this world, even 出家人 need to earn their living. They work to live well. The other thing that I learn was that we don't see how poor they are when we visit them but we see how good is our life is. They are not to be see as pity but as a description to ourself as how fortunate we are.