Don't abuse my kindness

I was walking home from the MRT station today, and I met something that somewhat pissed me off. But before that, let me tell you about what happened two weeks ago, the same time and place when I was walking home after chem olympiad.

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Just when I walked past the elevator to the MRT station, I was immediately approached by this woman who asked me the following sentences, "Hi, you are a student right? Do you believe that ex-criminals should be given a second chance in society? Actually I'm an ex-offender of the law..."

It ends with me donating $2 to the woman.

At first I felt that I did something right by helping an ex-offender. Until now.

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I met the same woman at the same place at the same time two weeks later, which is today. She was sitting at the side of the elevator with 2 other people. The moment they saw me, one of them pointed at me and this same woman got up and approached me.

"Hi, you are a student right? Do you believe that ex-criminals should be given a second chance in society? Actually I'm an ex-offender of the law..."

I completely ignored her this time. And I also realised that they only approached students like me.

What is the meaning of all this? Approaching unsuspecting students to get their sympathy? So that they will buy a piece of card for $2? People always say how the people of the new generation seem so cold and uncaring. When the world gets so murky until no one is sure of who is the real people in need, no one will want to be caring anymore.

I may be kind-hearted most of the time, (regardless of my extreme pride) but that does not mean these kind of people should abuse my kind-heartness for their own gain. I can tolerate for a long time, but someday I may just crack. By then I may have lost all emotions.

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Btw, todays chem olympiad was hair-tearing. I was going emo by the end of the lessons. If that kind of questions come out for our sec 4 syllabus I would laugh.