It is believed that only a kind and generous person with a big and bright soul can do good for free. Some people strongly disagree with this and believe that charity is something outdated, that all people are born with approximately equal starting data, and everyone should help themselves. As always, the truth is somewhere in between.
Boys and girls born in the USSR literally with mother’s milk absorbed the postulate that it was necessary to help the weak, offended and needy. In those days, people all over the world helped villagers who for some reason could not cope with farming on their own, took patronage of classmates lagging behind in their studies, always stood up for someone to whom the hooligans became attached. Today's teenagers for the most part no longer consider it their duty to provide free assistance to anyone. Is charity definitely useful?
What help can be considered free?
A person who is in a difficult life situation can be helped in different ways. You can give him money with which a person, if he does not improve his life, will at least reduce the relevance of some of his problems. If a person has nowhere to live, in your power to invite him to stay with you for some time, or at least help with the search for housing. To give almost unworn baby clothes, arrange an interview for a job, bring surplus vegetables and fruits from your personal plot - but you never know how you can support a person in need.
Unselfish help does not only mean that a person holding out his hand at the time of his weakness does not mean: from now on, he becomes his debtor and sometime in the future he will certainly thank his virtue one way or another. A truly disinterested person does not expect any return at all in exchange for all his labors - he helps only because he so desires, he is pleased to make this world a little cleaner and brighter. Helping people just like that, and not because somewhere and once every good deed you will be "counted" - this is real charity.
