January 15, 2014
As the song goes, “Everybody wants something from somebody”.
It makes no difference whether it is a tax deduction, a favor, or a free gift.
It makes no difference where you live either.
It is only natural that those who want try to take from those who have.
Of course the givers want something too. It’s a big circle filled with
delusions of entitlement and self-deception.
Here in Liberia the asking is more direct, person-to-person,
this makes it more desperate. A young
mother comes to your door for money to pay for her child stricken with malaria,
a widow whose husband was killed in the civil war wants at least a better
education for her sixteen year old daughter, children ask for food, or an adult
dying of kidney failure waits to die because dialysis is not affordable. One continually wonders whether any interest
in you is solely for the purpose of getting something.
Yet, I should not kid myself, for I am no different or more
deserving than those at my doorstep. I want too. The difference is my ability
to differentiate my wants from theirs, because I am more deserving.
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