Charity Begins at Home

It's true that family is the building block of an individual. Having an environment filled with love or hate will technically affect how a person sees and reacts to a situation.

Although there are a lot of factors that may suggest why a person behaves in such a way, affection for his or her family comes first before anything else. I have read a lot of stories about people, who are popular, whether it is in a positive or negative form.

There are a lot of people who experience neglect from their parents, either physically or emotionally. Either way, it affected how they felt and reacted to the world.

Let's take a look at Anna Delvey or Anna Sorokin. Many have probably heard of her because of that Netflix show. I have seen the show. I like the plot and lines and Julia Garner was amazing in terms of the character. Although the accent is a little bit over the top, it was still a spot-on thing. Going back to her story, told by Netflix, she disguised herself as a wealthy German heiress. Ever since then, those people who hear other people inheriting big lumps of money are always amazed and treat them as above average. I do think that money plays a big game since the start of man's discovery of revolution. However, Anna was not anywhere near that. She had parents, obviously, but they were not wealthy. In the show, Anna's relationship with her family was not a good thing. Although all families have ups and downs, Anna did not take that negativity into herself and made her own little world. I think the factor is that her family was not that invested in her because they don't seem to care even at the time she was arrested.

On the other hand, Aileen Wuornos, one of the most infamous serial killers in American history had a troublesome background before committing inhuman acts. If you are to look at her story, you can probably say that at some point, her acts were a little bit justified. Ever since she was born, the world is already against her. She is one of those bad people that I felt sad about because it didn't look like she enjoyed her life because life is always an obstacle to her. Her mom gave birth to her at such a young age and she never met her father because he was in prison. Her mother abandoned her and left her to her grandparents. Her grandfather sexually assaulted her and she became pregnant by a friend of her grandfather. If I'm not mistaken, to this day, those who committed a crime against her were never punished. In general, the type of environment she grew up in was not a good thing for a child. And she experienced things she shouldn't have.

It always starts with the family. If the family is good, the outcome of having a good child will be part of having that good parenting.

I can be one of those witnesses that when children see something from their parents that is either good or bad, they can immediately interpret it as something they should do.

Whatever children observe around them influences their moral standards. Home is where a child's personality is formed.

Whenever we are going to the city, since we live in the countryside, we always came across beggars on the street. And my little brother who is about 12 years younger than me, will always give them money. He would actually be angry at us for just passing by and acting like we didn't see them.

We are not a rich family, however, those acts of my little brother will always be a memory for us. I do put coins for beggars when I went to the city where I studied for college. And I think the reason why my fellow college mates are not doing the same thing is that they are already "used" to it, or maybe they know that some are just faking it.