Why donate?

I overheard this conversation recently (by accident k!!!)

"Aiya, no need to donate so much! You donate ah i think 50% also do not go to the victims!"

And the person who said was like so proud of himself, the face carry a kind of smugness which i so want to slap. Why donate? Why place your dollar into the cookie jug then when we have no idea if the victims of the recent disaster will receive the money? I believe all of us know of the Myanmar incident and have read how the authorities might not be distributing the money to the victims and keeping it for themselves.

And even if they donate are we certain that the ppl who needs it receives it? To tell you the truth we will never know. Wait i hear a very loud HMPH from somewhere...Why donate then? Why bothered? Cause in the end even if 90% of our money do not go to the victim AT LEAST 10% does. AT LEAST we know that 10% goes to the people.

Imagine if we do not even bother in the first place, will they be any help at all going to them in the first place? ZERO. KOSONG. NOTHING. So why do want to hold back and not help then? Cause we feel that we are cheated? Cause they are playing on our emotions? Let's think of it then...these ppl have been thru an ordeal which all of us will never be able to understand. the pain of losing a love one and the trauma that the person has to go thru for the rest of their life will never end.

The cries of very own babies, loved ones going through the night and yet nothing could be done...we will never understand it until we experience it. What is the money you donated then? $1? $5? Will it affect you in anyway? Maybe you might not be able to purchase that new dress or even new shirt or technological gadget. But for them it will be forever gone they will never be able to try or use it.

Ultimately i think the question would be the value of money to you. What does it mean to you actually? Some ppl hold a $5 in their hand and they say aiya costs so expensive now. What is $5 now? Pass the $5 to a person who have not had a meal in a day. The $5 means 10 times more than you now. In Conclusion, help cause you want to and don't let money control you for in the end they are just pieces of paper