meet mr. karma

[haebin]

yesterday i was in a strange situation. i forget to talk about it yesterday because i was so flashed about vivo city and the concert ticket.
but okay, here is the story.
yesterday morning, when i waited for alecs, i sat on the singapore river, ne? so, i was totally in peace and relaxed and so on ... as suddenly a monk stood next to me. he talked about inner peace and gave me a piece of paper, where i've read several names, the countries and a number.
he talked the whole time about being peaceful and gave me a sticket. than he said ... donation -_-
I really didn't want to give him money because i don't like it to get forced. but damn, he was a monk. and i am pretty sure they KNOW why they are wearing monks clothes :|
So I gave him 10 dollars *sigh*
he actually wanted 20 (!), but i said to him i don't have more money. he wanted to give me a bracelet and 200 dollars for it o___O
so, wtf. i told him the whole time i don't have more money and finally he left. i wasn't really angry about myself. more like, oh god anke, why can't u say *no* when u are really feeling like that?

so, when alecs and we walked through the vivo city mall, we saw a monk again. and we had this conversation.

alecs; do u see him? those guys are really bad people.
me; why?
alecs; because they are giving u things, talking about donation but they are forcing u (and your bad conscience) to pay for it actually. and then they taking this money to get drunk and fucking around with prostitues
me; *sigh*
alecs; what's wrong?
me; i guess i made a monk a little bit happier today -__-
alecs; hach ankiiiiiii
XDDDD

so, for the next time i will say i don't have the money for it!
actually a young guy came at vivo city to me and asked me for donation and this time i sat *NO*! U see, I've learned pretty fast, ne? XDDD

Comments

[kazu-hisoka.livejournal.com]

That always happen everytime we go out with my mom. Not anymore but when things ok with us we would occasionally go out and somehow we would come across people asking for donations or trying to get us to buy stuff. I remember there was a day that my mom gave money to several people until later that day someone came up to her and my second oldest sister told the lady we couldn't. I don't think it's wrong to donate but yeah when you can't donate it makes one feel guilty. People always look at your lying too. -___-

[haebin.livejournal.com]

yup, that is right. it is okay to donate but i don't wanna have the feeling to be forced to give money. but i wanna do it by myself. and i don't wanna buy something as a donation *sigh*
now i am going away when i am seeing those people. maybe it isn't nice, but i can't give everyone my money. especially not 200 singapore dollars for a cheap bracelet o.o