The Eagle Will Not Fly Without the Poor

[Alpha_One]

Our people have gone down to a level where we have to honor those who do good (or the right thing).

A cab driver who returned money his passenger left in the cab. A little girl who turned over a backpack full of money someone dropped. They were rewarded handsomely.

Is doing the right thing so rare nowadays that things like that call for a celebration and reward-giving?

Is doing the wrong thing the standard these days? that we have to broadcast over the evening news that doing the right thing has its rewards?

So now we actually have to encourage our people to do the right thing? Isnt doing the right thing the default thing to do?

Our country has no shortage of inspirational messages. We have priests and churches everywhere. We have religious tv shows everyday.

Man cannot live on bread alone. That is if u dont have any problem obtaining bread...then u can set ur mind to more spiritual pursuits. But if ur daily existence is concerned with obtaining bread, inspirational messages sound like background noise.

Our country has a shortage of capital. We need to attract capital. Just like what China and India are doing so well.

Then when ur citizens are not occupied with obtaining their daily bread, inspirational messages will begin to sound like inspirational messages.

Doing the "right thing" isn't rare. Doing the "right thing" is the default thing to do. You don't seem to recognise the good things, because by default, what is done are the "good things".

Of course, average people returning big ass packs of cash are all over the news because it's so media friendly. But you never see anyone on the news who returned a wallet containing a social security ID - exactly what a multicab driver did when he saw my grandmother's wallet in the back of his vehicle. (Grandma's wallet got snatched, the thief probably left it in the back of a truck)

On TV, you don't see:

-Drivers giving way to people coming out of their parking spaces.

-Commuters teaching first-timers how to operate the LRT2 vending machine.

-Good samaritans helping a motorist who's car broke down.

-People paying correct taxes (unless they're politicos or celebs).

-People paying correct amounts.

-People doing their work.

-Etc.

Hell, doing good is sooooooooooo trivial nobody gives any special attention to it.

The world is still >90% good, but not to many people realise that. Thank God.