Subtle Charity – Story 1

I have a friend who is some kind of weird. She loves buying things which she doesn’t need. It sounds horrible right, you might think that she is just a big spender or what.

Actually, she loves buying things from street sellers. One day, coming out from a bank, there was a makcik sitting at a corner of the bank. The makcik was selling traditional crisps, like, kerepek pisang, kerepek ubi and other types of kerepek. She instantly bought a few kerepek from the makcik, and when she paid, she did not take the balance. ‘Keep the change’, she told the makcik. Then she passed all the kerepek to me, ‘nah, take them all, I don’t like kerepek’. I asked her ‘why did you buy then?’. She just smiled.

To her,

Charity sees the need, not the cause

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