Recent a big fan of Chris Daughtry

[Markl]

Haven't really listened to much of his music before, but this song sort of puts a lot of things in perspective as we all strive for money in day to day life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylgchWR-Ig

Woops, that would be "Recently."

We all strive to be successful, but can true happiness be attained without helping other people? For me, I get greater internal happiness from helping others than helping myself. I am very happy with the person I am.

A short story that happened to me recently that made me feel horrid.
I was going down to local store to buy some Cigs.
A young woman was out there and as I was leaving she said "Spare some change please?" Quite demurely. It just happened that I didn't have any on me, as I used mastercard. I felt so awful. Maybe she was a crackhead, but she was no streetwalker because she seemed embarrassed to be asking. I thought about her for days. I felt guilty that I couldn't help her at the moment. A soul worth saving, and money wouldn't have done it. Probably just have made it worse. I reflect on her a lot, and hindsight, I should have gone back and talked to her. Maybe some predator will pick her up and have her doing things she wouldn't like. So I feel awful about that.
I hope it's not the case.

 

[jim]

Helping Others

Every once in a while we all come across that similar situation and as we become even more cashless (in TO Rogers and Visa are testing pay by cell phone) we end up without anything to hand out.

The cynic in me says 'yeah but it will go into their arm or lungs'. I was thinking what is the min amount you can put on a tim horton's gift card? Let's say you have a pocketful of $5.00 cards, you know that this way the recipient will at least get something warm in their tummies.

Just my 2 cents (via Credit Card)

 

[moi]

Every once in a while we all come across that similar situation and as we become even more cashless (in TO Rogers and Visa are testing pay by cell phone) we end up without anything to hand out.

The cynic in me says 'yeah but it will go into their arm or lungs'. I was thinking what is the min amount you can put on a tim horton's gift card? Let's say you have a pocketful of $5.00 cards, you know that this way the recipient will at least get something warm in their tummies.

Just my 2 cents (via Credit Card)

what about the homeless in Atlanta? there's no Timmy's there


Yea i know what u mean. I dont offer change anymore. I offer food. Probably 40% of the time they don't take the food, they just walk away.

 

[Markl]

Imagine if you will, what a difference that we could make if we all took a session off of our clients, and sps, and contributed one times worth to a local charity. It would be a nice xmas present to some needy people right here.

Who needs it the most in your local communities?

 

[jackcb]

Imagine if you will, what a difference that we could make if we all took a session off of our clients, and sps, and contributed one times worth to a local charity. It would be a nice xmas present to some needy people right here.

Who needs it the most in your local communities?

http://www.hopemission.com/index.htm

http://www.mustard.ab.ca/
Edmonton Women's Shelter

I tend to volunteer around the holidays at one of the above three. Christmas usually means a bit of the yearly bonus being donated.

 

[HB40]

I never have time to volunteer and rarely see any people on the streets.

I donate 20% of my income to charities and support many non-profit organizations. I help the ones doing the work and providing the resources and often get news of many personalized success stories.

And I am still not sure about Chris Daughtry

 

[HB40]

I am now a fan of Daughtry. The guy rocks! He's intelligent, creative and has a knack for writing hit songs. He has serious talent and I think he'll be around for a long time.

 

[cruiser]

Nice song....Actually I have a couple of his other songs on some cd's that I cut. I hadn't heard this one before but it made easier to understand it's meaning by seeing the video at the same time.