Keeping up

So while I was at work the other day (I work as a housekeeper at a hotel, it’s actually not bad and maybe even fun!) taking a break and eating breakfast with the other housekeeper I work with we were watching this show called “Keeping up with the Kardashians.”  Now if you are like me and have never seen it before it’s basically about the lives of a bunch of rich-ass people.  Anyway on this particular show one of the daughters took it upon herself to help out a homeless man, get him all cleaned up and even taken to the dentist to get his teeth fixed.  Pretty cool if you ask me.

But the thing was the way her family reacted.  Her father was very down on the whole idea and was even heard to make the comment “this guy is costing me a lot of money.”  Yeah, like that’s a problem for a rich, rich, rich person.  At another point he said something along the lines of, “when she was a kid she was always bringing home stray animals, now it’s stray people.”  Anyway I didn’t catch the rest of the show but it looked like the rest of her family was equally unsupportive.

I was disgusted, not with her for she was doing a good thing, but with her family.  I mean what a way to destroy the desire to be philanthropic.  Horrible.  And another thing – if this is what keeping up with the Kardashians means than I’m all for it, but we all know what it really means is keeping up with them in their filthy riches and spendy ways.  It should be the other one.  We should want to be as philanthropic as that daughter was.

And we should want to be philanthropic without having some rich person to look up to.