Everything can't be traded with money

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

Sacrificing our own desires, needs, and interest for helping others is called self-denial. In a word, it's another meaning of selflessness or sacrifice. It can be defined in various ways but I tried to explain it in a simple way.

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Self-denial is one of the great virtue of human character and I believe little or more we have this kind of motive in our mind. Self-denial is a part of humanity and that means as well as humanity exists on this earth, self-denial can't disappear.

I don't think sacrificing something for our better future or for the good of our family should not be included because it's not fully selflessness. So I am sharing one incident of self-denial.

It was the incident just before the time of covid-19 pandemic situation. One of my friends asked me if I am available to do tuition. I had available time and I replied yes. I start to teach the student after receiving the offer and the monthly salary was good with was about $50 per month. Two months were remaining before the exam and so I agreed to finish it as a course and give $100 in the end.

When I started to teach him, I acknowledge that his father died in his childhood times and I felt sad about it. No one in his family earns to live. They get financial support from his mother's brother from childhood. He was the only hope of his family as well as his mother. He was one of the polite students of mine.

I finished my course and his mother promised to give me the money within some days. And pandemic situation arrived at that time. Everywhere people started to die because of covid-19 and the world became like hell. I know you also experienced it.

Almost everyone was facing a financial crisis and I was not different also. That time my student's mother called me and asked for my online wallet number to pay my salary online. Then I started to think their financial condition was worse compare to mine and in the crisis time how they are surviving. I knew they were also suffering for it but giving me money which I actually deserve. I could feel it. I could not be so cruel as to accept the salary.

I know it cost me a $100 loss and it was the money which I deserve it and I need the money at that time but I understood that they need the money more than me. So I said them to keep the money for their own. The student's mother was so happy that she started to cry and gave me blessings.

Yes, I suffered a loss financially, and all the effort of the 2 months but it gave me satisfaction. It gave me blessings. Everything in life can't be traded with money. Sometimes we need to do some tasks for the sake of humanity. Compared to satisfaction and blessing, $100 is almost nothing.