What hurts me more than my stupidity or the financial loss (I am talking about 6-digit THB) is that I could have used that money for charity. To help people who is really in need, instead of a swindler that loves shopping at EmQuartier.
To put things in perspective, at the beginning of this year I met a lady on ThaiFriendly. I went to her apartment in a slum soi near Victory Monument. I was shocked when I saw her mini room illegally constructed at the space under the apartment stairs. A thin wooden wall with a fragile door, a big electric panel inside the space, a thin mattress on the floor, no air-con, can only stand up at one corner of the room because of the triangle-shaped ceiling under the stairs, no water or facilities, she has to use a communitarian toilet downstairs... A miserable corner. The landlord should be reported. But then, where could she find a place as economic as that?
I gave her space to talk about herself. She is nice and kind. She lost her job during covid. She showed me the pics of her student daughter that is living with an aunt, and said she is doing everything for her. Given the room conditions, I guess that she may not have returning customers. Like me. I survived that time because it was on January, but now the room must feel like an oven.
Sometimes she is asking me 200฿ for food, or 75฿ for water, or medicines. I always send her more, and she sends me pictures of everything that she buys. This morning she told me that she could not buy food because she is rejecting work after someone asked her to do something humiliating. She is really struggling.
I clench my teeth when I think that my money could have been used to pay for her daughter’s education instead of being wasted at Zara and Gucci. I did not think about helping so much like that before I lost that money, but now that I have seen it gone away, I would not mind to use it for a good cause. If it were returned to me, I would give it back 100% to real charity.
[ Last edited by Haumann at 26-6-2023 14:30 ] | |
