Mar
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2021
Asking for a friend · 12:46am Mar 20th, 2021
Lets say you have a character who has a reasonably good income, who has got into the habit of anonymously gifting to people in need, and has done that for so long that they feel it's become a part of their character. Their income suddenly reduces to the point that they can only survive, but not share and not increase. How does the character react?
How do they find purpose when their chosen purpose has suddenly been ripped away?
Do they even have one?
This thought brought to you by Johnny Walker Black, the worst whisky to ever be inflicted on this earth. I blame my pseudo-uncle for dying and forcing it on me in his will. Bastard.
They can find other ways to contribute. Granted, it's much harder to make those contributions anonymously, but the effort's still going to the same cause.
According to one of the earliest stories here, and one of my favorites, they go insane. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/183/5/pony-psychology-series/rarity-loss
They come to the realization that 1) they are happy or unhappy, 2) that maybe they should change their behavior (however much) if it's causing them distress and unhappiness, and 3) that maybe they could be effective at convincing other people to also contribute to the things and people they care about, as well.*
* My £2 (increased due to inflation).
donating old clothes to salvation army or goodwill is always acceptable or just volunteering if need be, it doesn't even need to be at a major place just around said neighborhood for neighbors.
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That's the real answer right there. If you can't give money, give your time; hospitals, retirement homes, animal shelters, soup kitchens. It does remove their anonymity however.
Either turn to makeshift gifts or focusing on their survival first, for the sooner they get back on their feet (or hooves), the sooner they will return to their generous anonymous gifting.
you change the type of help you can offer. where once it is monetary support (I'm assuming this is the most common type), you change it to whatever non monetary support that you can provide that those people or characters need. for example, I have a neighbor that is poor, so I've taken to leaving cash in his/her mailbox. then one day I lose my job, so I cant provide money, well, what else does my neighbor need ? find that out and begin supplying it, for physical things, offer to cook dinner, child care, emotional support. for those at a distance, support their works and offer praise as well as well wishes, or any type of support you can given the circumstances. the entire show that we are all a fan of enshrines friendship/harmony as its greatest virtue. do what you can, how you can to uphold and embody that.
I should not be allowed anywhere near a computer on a friday night...
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Thanks for the thoughts and ideas, everyone. You're all lovely people.
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Your friend is a good person, but needs to think more about why they're a good person. It isn't because they can afford to help others, it's something else.
I would say to that person that their special thing wasn’t giving stuff, it was being good. And I’m sure there is still a lot of good that needs doing all around them, should they choose to actively look for it.
It is entirely possible that he came to discover that his anonymous donations where falling into the pockets of a charity director rather than touching those who needed the money. Or that the charities collapsed much sooner than he realized, like on The Dark Knight Rises.