I have always grown up to learn that in everything you do, always make sure you are trying to help people in one way or the other. It might not necessarily be with money in every case, but sometimes the little help we do for people really counts in a big way because that little help you do for people can help make some people become a better person in life. Sometimes we all think it's all about the kind of people we render the help to or the way it comes. Rendering help comes in diverse ways, and the way you get the payback differs.
Sometimes when some set of people want to help people, they first ask to know if the person that they are rendering the help to is a male or a female. To some set of people, they do not value helping their own kind of people, and instead they prefer to help the opposite sex. I have a friend that, no matter who you are or what you are, if you are a guy, you can not get anything from him regardless of whatever it is you are seeking from him. Even if it's something very small, like a droplet of water.
But to me, when I see that kind of person, I do not fault them because I believe that is what they want, and no one can stress them to do otherwise because that is what they have chosen to do. When you are giving, according to the teaching we were taught while we were growing up as kids, we were taught to always give to people, especially to those we don't know, and not expect the return from them because the rewards of what you have done will either come differently or from another person you do not expect at all.
Truth be told, most of the time, when you want to think of this, you will just think of how possible this is. But you know, it's very possible. To help people around us should not cost us anything. But I am not saying you should go beyond your capacity if you are not capable of doing what you are asked. What is the point when you are asked for something and you are not capable of it, and still you went beyond your limit for the person?
I needed an app some weeks ago, and I met someone online and bought it. But recently I met with a guy online who needed the same app, and I had to just text the guy when he told me the amount he was charged to get the app, which was much higher than what I got mine for. I had to assist him, but I never thought I could do that because he might be thinking it's not possible for Pele to help their fellow people. After doing that, I was traveling and was in a discussion with a random person I did not know before, and our conversation got to a point, and he had to share some things about something I needed without getting a dime from me.
This made me conclude that not every help you render will yield good returns to you, but just ensure you do good because you will surely reap it some day, either early or late. Just be good to people regardless of their sex. Life is not meant to be hard.