"Success is to give."                       — U2, "God, Pt II"

One of the most personally fulfilling things you can to give to a charity you really believe in.  This doesn’t have to be money — it can be donated items to be sold at their thrift shops; it could be buying one of their T-shirts and wearing it in public or it could expressing your opinion on the comments section on public blogs and news articles that allow comments.  I was moved to do the latter this week on behalf of animal rights. 

I got a lot of really hate-filled responses (to put it mildly), usually on the lines that I’m just wasting my life on these animal causes. 

Now, I’m NOT going to debate animal rights here.  Everyone has their own cause or thing they support — whether it’s animal rights, human rights, saving old buildings, teaching adults to read, advocating gun control laws, advocating the removal of gun control laws, whatever.  And you know what? 

What?

They are all good uses of your time in order to help you life a happier and more fulfilling life (even the ones you don’t agree with). Just please recognize that other people will find different causes that helps them live a happy and fulfilling life.  For example, I get a lot of, "There are people starving — you should work to stop that."  Well, there are already a lot of organizations that address that very problem.  I tend to dare to do charity work for those critters that don’t have a good advertising budget.  That’s my thing.  How is this such a crime?

Don’t Take It Personally

No legitimate charity is planning to take over the world.  Most charities are just hanging on by the skin of their teeth, let alne plotting world domination.  If you see someone write a comment in a blog about Save the Whatever, it does not mean that they wrote it just to tick you off.  (Unless the post is full of profanity and hate speech — then it was meant to tick you and any other reader off). 

When you read of a protest or press release or whatever from This Or That Cause, they are not meeting in secluded bunkers talking about they can mess up your life and just your life.  They tend to have more important things on their agendas. 

So, if you are not getting personally attacked by a charity (as in — they are not using your name), don’t take anything they say or do so personally that would provoke the charity’s members to defend themselves.  This doesn’t help anyone, least of all you.  It’s just aggression for aggression’s sake.  You don’t make yourself look any better and you definitely aren’t going to change anyone’s mind to your way of thinking.

Hope this helps.

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