Cassandra's reflection

During these three weeks of learning, I have learnt quite a few life lessons. For example, for last week's CID lesson, we were given two photos to ponder on. The two pictures depicts people begging. For the first photo, it was a man holding a sign stating that he was homeless had his things stolen, and was asking for help from others. For the second photo, it was a woman carrying a baby and was begging money from a man in fine clothings. 

After looking at those photos, we were asked to decide who to help if we had only one one-dollar coin. I was stuck on whom to choose since both are very pitiful and needed much help. However I decided to help the woman carrying a baby because not only she needed money to look after herself, but also the baby. She also can't carrying her child and beg for money since the baby is still very young, it needs more care and attention.

However, after the teacher told us the behind story the picture. For the first picture, the man was crippled and his home was broken into so needed some money to contact his family members. However for the second picture, the woman was a syndicate beggar and was forced to carry a baby to beg in order to gain others pity so that they would give her money. The money collected would mostly belonged to the syndicate.

After we knew the story behind the pictures, we were asked to reconsider our choices. I decided to give the money to the man as a dollar could enable him to contact with his family members but giving money to the woman would result to more harm to her since she was able to gain some money, the syndicate will continue to use her in order to get money and she may never be able to have freedom.

From this lesson, I realised that not everything that we see from our own eyes may be true since there may be some inside story that we may not know. I also realised the importance of looking and thinking beyond the situation