The best way to cheer yourself up is to try and cheer someone else up - Mark Twain.

I get sick of people bragging about the good they've done or the spate of videos I've recently come across on Youtube where someone goes out onto the street and gives a homeless lady or gent $100 and sees what they do with it. Or even the ones where someone anonymously leaves a bag of goodies under the seat a homeless human is sleeping on to film their reaction upon waking. Or this one, where a couple drive around in a supercar gleefully doling out dominos pizza and asking dumb questions, all in the name of raising awareness.

The Youtuber then goes back to his lovely warm home to read all the congratulatory comments from his hordes of sycophantic followers. Give em a night in your penthouse, a shower and treat them like human beings if you really care. Is it stupidity ? or would it be too cynical to suggest this pair of muppets were just out for the publicity ?

OK, what else do we have ? OK, over in the US this time a guy wanders around handing out $100 dollars in the name of a 'social experiement', it seems the homeless are now just social experiments and not people who need help.

YouTube is full of this bollocks so my challenge to us all is this:

Think about giving freely to someone, without being asked or being expected to give, without them knowing you or you knowing them.

It is attitudes just as much as acts that make a difference.

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