Bone for Charity

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Tuesday, 28 Oct '08

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

--Jack London

My Thoughts:
Here Jack London is not trying to change the definition of Charity. Instead he tries to rectify our most common behavior.

And this behavior is only to give away only the excess we have. We would share something only when the “Juice overflows the Bottle.” I do agree that such a sharing is good, but when you share your stuff when you are in the same need as the receiver is……you have reached the peak of charity, a great human gesture of kindness.