The act of giving to a beggar has
less to do with benefiting the recipient than it does with absolving one’s own
conscience of guilt in that fleeting, yet unbearable moment. Having dispensed with a few
rupees, the beggar can be forgotten and one can return to the more sanguine elements
of the day. But, if one does not give, the guilt nags upon one’s soul like a
terrible blister...that is, until one’s mind is pulled so far afield by some
other distraction that the beggar and the guilt, indeed the entire incident,
are rendered but one more forgotten sadness, buried so deep in the darkest
recesses of memory as to never even have happened.
The Frequency is Courage,
- Doug B.
The Frequency is Courage,
- Doug B.
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