I set up a small charity canteen near the oncology hospital, specifically to help the families of patients who were struggling financially. Since I didn't allow people to take extra food away, the patients' families reported me.
“Boss, you've got a heart of stone! You're even making money off the families of sick people like us. Did a dog eat your conscience?”
“I know that businesspeople want to make money first, but you shouldn't take money from just anyone. You've got no conscience.”
“Bottom line, you're heartless. You'd do anything for money, without a shred of shame. I'd never come back to a place like this.”
I was furious and upset. Over the past two years, I'd fallen out with my family and piled up debts to keep this charity canteen going. The boxed meals sold elsewhere came with over ten ounces of meat and two vegetable dishes, but I charged only five yuan and even provided free soup. When patients' families came by to start a fire or do something else, I charged them nothing and even paid the oil and gas bills myself.
I spent money and wore myself out, only to be called heartless in the end?
Not one of the patients' families I'd helped spoke up for me when they heard I'd been reported. Instead, they kicked me while I was down.
My heart was completely broken.
Whoever wants to do charity can do it themselves.
