Detoxing the ingratitude addict
Ingratitude in others is a turn off for even people who are uncontrollably kind at heart.
handouts, grant every favour that they may desire of us nor to ignore them. It may be more useful to turn the tables on them: give them a taste of their medicine, mimic their attitude toward them, etc., but you are creative enough to come up with some better strategies. Bottom line, we must help them.
Like it or not, we have a social duty to all humanity: good, bad and indifferent. And yes, we are all selfish creatures and couldn’t care two hoots about what happens to others, but “a nuh suh dis ting guh”, as a friend would say. Whenever we insulate and isolate ourselves from others because they are like a “pain in the neck”, we run the risk of “paining the whole body”. What do you think?
A little brawta of the Ten Commandments (not suggestions) handed to humanity on how to relate to God and man, six of them relate to man to man: you shall not murder you shall not commit adultery you shall not steal you shall not bear false witness against your neighbour
you shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s.
Think on these things and be grateful everyday.
THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING FOR HELPING YOUR NEIGHBOUR
Mercedes, St Andrew, for household items Latoyer for contribution Dreie, St Catherine, for contributing to neighbour’s welfare
The United Pentecostal Church, Kingston, for contributing neighbours’ welfare
OPPORTUNITIES FOR HELPING
Neighbour asking for a bed, dresser and TV
Andrea, St James, mother of 3 asking for a sewing machine
Neighbour asking for bed linen for small bed
Maxine, Hanover, needs a sewing machine
Sister Dell, St Andrew, asking for a bed
Neighbour, Single mother of 4 asking for food, clothing and help with dental problems.
Sharon, Kidney patient urgently needs help... heart is now affected, feet are swollen and painful
Larnet, Clarendon, asking neighbours for assistance to send children to school. Also needs clothing for them
Neighbour asking for a crib or a play pen
Student having difficulty preparing SBAs and other work ... asking for a 2nd hand laptop.
To help, please call 3348165, 884-3866, or deposit to acct # 351 044 276 NCB. (Bank routing #: JNCBJMKX) or send donations to HELLO NEIGHBOUR c/o 53 Half Way Tree Road, Kingston 10; Paypal/credit card: email: zicron22@yahoo.com. Or contact e-mail helloneighbour@yahoo.com.