In this case I have used creative licence to contort this into the question that gets posed at my doorway several times during the year.“To be, or not to be: that is the question:”
Typically it is to a younger person that I am refusing to give at the door to.
Ah, yes to be young again.
But wait. I am young, relatively speaking, so why do these dooor-to-door salespeople think that it is any less noble to do the work of a volunteer, in their local community.
Instead they travel sometimes 100 km to canvas a neighbourhood such as mine, and approach with the pitch for their worthy cause.
I can relate to fundraising, and I can empathize with the aims of the Society or Association that is attempting to fund-raise by direct donations.
But for me, it does not work.
Why? You may ask.
Well, In the first part, there is a significant amount of energy that gets wasted in just canvassing, and then there is the overhead of the fund-raising activities as well.
Just look up the "King of Charities", and the brilliant expose in the Toronto Star Newspaper of Kevin Donovan.
I am not saying that charities are not worthy of the dollars given to them, but the means at which they arrive at their donation are suspect.
So I prefer to donate a little, where I can, and when I can to the charities that matter most to me, and not because somebody I do not know, asks If I am familiar with their program.
Even if I knew the person, and they were asking for some valid cause, I still initially refuse, until I have had time to reflect upon the organization doing the spending/
