Generosity (by Caleb)

Generosity is something that for someone with much is easy. For people with so little though generosity can be very difficult, but here in Haiti, especially in the orphanage, generosity seems like something that comes as second nature to these people and the children of the orphanage. It seems extremely present with these children here in the orphanage, and despite the fact that they have almost nothing their first response is always to be generous and share all that they have. All that they have though probably doesn't seem like very much to most people. their only possessions that they actually have that they can give away are mangoes. There is a mango tree in the corner of the court yard of the orphanage, and the kids will wait and wait sometimes for hours on end for one of those mangoes to fall from that tree. I personally have seen multiple children go sliding, or even diving head first, straight onto the rocks and rebarb just to get one of these mangoes. Some of the kids will get up in the pouring rain at three in the morning just to try and check for one of these fallen mangoes. Now going to all this trouble just to get these mangoes may seem silly to some people, but it is the only thing that they can actually have as their own. Saying this absolutely speaks magnitudes to the generosity of these children when all they ever want to do with these mangoes is give them to you. Just seconds before coming up to write this I was in the court yard with the children throwing a frisbee when two mangoes fell from the tree near us, and the two children just bolted straight for the mangoes. When the kids got the mangoes the first thing they did was turn straight around to give them to someone, and I got lucky and they actually gave me one. They gave all they had just to see someone happy and see the smile on that person's face. This is what generosity really is.