Sunday, December 04, 2005

Meeting strangers!

I have met strangers who ask for my help during these past few weeks ... One of them was a young person who wanted to use my phone to message his boss to get paid ... He claimed that he did not have any money to recharge ... I was about to help him out, but after thinking more I was suspicious and asked him a couple of questions ... He was quite desparate .. I don't think I was in danger at all, but I just didn't want to get involved ... I thought "what if the boss message me back" ... "what if the boss is someone from mafia?" ... Then I refused to help him out coldly ...

I can be very COLD and CRUEL sometimes if I don't trust a person ... Trust is very expensive for me ... But after that, usually another part of me feel bad about it .. I thought: "What if that person really need the money?" "Has he eaten for the past couple of days" .. haha ... Anyway ...

I am just confused about what should I do when I meet a stranger asking for help ... I am no fool to know that some of them ask not because they are in need .. some of them ask for help to buy cigarette or drugs ... Being raised in country like Indonesia, I am also aware of crime triggerred by these sort of actions .... Sometimes I am just in a hurry and do not have time to help (like going to uni to study for exam).. ... But some of them DO genuinely ask for help

Another experience that I had happened today on my way to a salon ... I met someone who distributed a pamphlet about Jesus ... At first, I refused coldly again ... Meeting stranger sometimes scared me ... But after looking at what he did, I felt that I shouldn't do that .. He was a christian like me .. He sat in disabled chair distributing pamphlet about the gospel in front of so many people ... I felt moved and I spoke to him for a while ... He was a nice guy, maybe a good christian too ...

The point is, I want to be a blessing to strangers as well ... I remember there is a story in my church's bulletin about a program in television testing people's generosity and humanity ... The program tried to test people's humanity by using someone who pretend not to have money to go back home ... That someone then began asking money desparately ... The amount is not big at all, just enough to get back to his town with public transport, but no one was willing to give the money ... In the end, it was a beggar, old lady that gave him the money and she won the prize eventually ... She said something like this: "I am used to live in poverty and to be able to help out another human being who is in need is a priviledge .. " ... Mannn, when I read it I compared her to myself straight away ... Jauh bangett!!

Kepolosan dia dan ketulusan hatinya emang patut diacungi jempol ... I want to be someone yg polos like that .. I like people with a polos heart ... But at the same time I want to be smart as well ... or should I say wise ... Being loving and wise is the goal ... Afterall, I am still learning but I thought i might share my experience here ...

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