Back in the days when most professions are taken up by people because of the love to do it, and also to serve humanity.
You would see children in those days deciding to be a medical doctor, not just because of having a medical doctor in their household but because of the passion they have to save their community from being killed by deaths and sickness that can be avoidable and preventable.
Currently in this era that we are, there are hospitals that even when an almost lifeless body is brought in and no one is ready to make a deposit payment for treatment, such victim of circumstances won't be attended to. It's understandable that as private sectors, money is needed and that people can also be mean at times to repay kindness with bad acts of not paying up but then if it was on the basis of love and passion of doing that profession then they wouldn't want a patient which they can save, dead in their facility.
I've seen a owner of a hospital discussing about reporting about a case in the station of a woman who just delivered a baby and ran away because of payment. She even left the child behind which didn't make the nurses suspect a foul play in the first place until they saw no return of the woman. So cases like this makes people wanna turn a blind eye to helping people which does affect the real people in need.
In the old times, schools are founded and established so that the rate of children wasting away due to illiteracy can get their feet grounded in school and becoming great for themselves and the society at large.
Most times I wonder where that passion and love from those old times get missing to. Those schools we lived up to meet and most of us even attended like Baptist Model High School, Anglican Model College, St. Paul Primary and Secondary School and so on were founded and established because those individuals and body of churches had that passion to ensure people go to school at little or no cost but then how is it today?
Most schools founded and established by churches are very expensive and so costly that even the members who attends those churches can't enroll their children in there or youths deciding to sponsor themselves in going to the institution founded by their church because it was not established for the purpose of humanity but strictly business.
I've heard of stories of people who took up the initiative of catering for elderly people that have been neglected by their families not because they will be paid for it or something which led to a big initiative and success and then people realizing how worthy such an initiative is, turned it into business by creating theirs. At the end you may see that such organizations ends up not having adequate means of actualizing the vision the first person has but would only chase after the money or funds they will get from there.
Let's not misunderstand this, whatever is worth doing is worth doing well and no one is disputing the fact that we can setup a business for profit sake because business is business and can't be mixed with pleasure even if it's about passion but then is there really the love and passion of that profession that would enable us to help that people in need of that service we render receives it even when they can't afford it.
How can we find our way back to having that passion in place of the urge for making money? Only by cutting our greed and looking into loving ourselves and fellowselves. I used the term fellowselves because though they may not be you but they are part of you. I remember a prompt we wrote on about Living alone in the world of which almost everyone says it's impossible so what can we do alone without our fellow humans and that's why we have the commandments of loving our neighbor as ourselves. When that love sets back in, every other things becomes right.
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