Charity begins at home

22-1-2022
Saturday
11:50 pm 
#108

As humans, our first responsibility is to cater for the needs of our family and friends.

Charity Begins at home. For you to help people of the larger society, you need to start from those that are close to you. The society can only have a limited effect on.

Most people help those outside before those they are close to just because they want to show off. Those they help will feel they've helped their family/friends already. Without knowing that they didn't.

You are responsible, first and foremost, to the people who depend on you and when it comes to your family and friends, you can't take that responsibility lightly. If you're an adult, making sure that the people you love are taken care of should be your top priority. They depend on you for their every need.

There is a certain amount of satisfaction to be gained from helping your close relations. But there is also a limit to how much help you can give them (even if you're rich). If you help them too much, or if you try to help others too much, then you will end up hurting yourself and them.

If a person becomes wealthy, it is not valid to deny this lesson. If a person has achieved wealth, they have a moral obligation to do something with it.

We have a duty to be responsible for the people closest to us in our lives.

This focus is important as it is essential that as individuals, we take responsibility for each other. Families are integral to this; they support and love us, teach us right and wrong and provide us with hope and stability.

The members of the family can counteract the coldness of the outside world when it comes to individuals and their human rights.

People say they would do anything for their family and friends; in short, they are willing to make any sacrifice they think they should. Given the chance to earn money, save lives, or otherwise improve upon a situation that would directly benefit the lives of their loved ones, most of us would take the opportunity. Unfortunately, this isn’t how things often go.

Despite our good intentions it’s hard to know when to say yes and when to say no. We all have different ideas of what should be done with our time and resources and knowing where to draw the line between serving others and taking care of our own needs can be a hard thing to discern.

The struggle becomes greater when the needs of others overlap with our own and we have to make hard choices about who deserves our time and resources more than others.

In the end, we all struggle with the question of what is enough for us and what we should do for the people we care about.

Many people need help and many people are willing to give help. But if we want to help the truly needy, we need to focus our efforts on those closest to us.

I'm also a firm believer in the value of charity. Giving money, food, and clothing to those who need it can be incredibly rewarding and is something we should all do. But a person's first responsibility is for the needs of their own family and friends.

Closing thought

If you have no self-love and care for yourself, why should you love and care for others? When you put yourself and your family first, self-love is created. You are your family.

We don't think enough about our own role in this, but in order to have an impact on other people, we have to take care of ourselves, be healthy and live with resilience, we have to be generous and compassionate with ourselves and others, and we have to be creating something that is meaningful for ourselves.

Sometimes this can feel like a burden, but I'd rather approach it as an opportunity because it means that I can choose how I want my life to be and who I want to be.

Remember charity begins at home. Help those in your closet before you go out and help others.