Charity or waste of money???

Could anyone take a wild guess as to wat m gonna rite here?? ok.. this blog is mine and watever thoughts present here are solely the forebearing of my mind as i have already said before. so today m gonna rite about a daily scene that i witness quite a many times at Hyderabad and my mind today thought of penning down those thoughts...Let me begin...
I was travelling by the local MMTS(multi modal transport system.... For people not very familiar wid Hyderabad, this is one of the most convenient transport i find here. I kinda find solace from the push n pull of the Hyderabad busses here... ). I see a girl.. she comes and distributes a pamphlet which says tht shes from Gujarat and shez very poor and she needs money(in denominations of 2, 5, 10 , 50) for her sister's marriage... I see her going from person to person distributing the pamphlet. ok.. for a person she recognises as the one who can't understand Telugu, she hands over an English one which has a note which goes like: "since I cannot write in English, I have taken help from a Hindi knowing person to write this..." well... there starts my thought process.

"Should i give this girl some money as help?"... "Is this a true story tht she has printed over here?"... "is she bent on cheating me of my hard earned money .. be it even 2 Rs??"..."well shez not forcing me.. its upto me to give her some money or not...." my heart comes to my rescue... the aunty sitting opposite to me in the train hands over the pamphlet to her along with some money and i too decide to follow suit.. I hand over the pamphlet to her along with a 2 Re coin. I see that she has almost collected about 20-30 Rs from the ladies compartment which i can say was quite empty at about 1.00 in the afternoon.

now tht shez long gone... i decide to debate wid myself on this topic and to write a blog about watever be the outcome... wat if tht girl was really in need?? wat if my contribution (which will look relatively insignificant to me since I dont mind spending collosal amount of money on luxuries for myself) will really help her to settle her sister's life?? possibilities are many... is she bluffing?? but does tht really matter??

Walking down the streets of Hyderabad, it is not very uncommon to meet someone asking for alms... my opinion is tht as long as u r ok wid Charity and ready to help someone, you should b doing it... I hav some close friends who are against this and they call it those people's fate. i cant object to them as it is their perspective... n m sure those ppl reading this at this time will hav a smile on their face...
but how do we findout if the person is genuinely in need of assistance or no?? it is very difficult... and it become smore difficult wen you see a movie like "Traffic Signal"...

For a persom like me who thinks tht every person has a rite to b happy and the person who is wel to do can help those less privileged ones, I hav decided finally to help those ppl the way i can... even if it means that i sometimes will hav to b a bit uncomfortable.
For me I would say, it is not waste of money, but it is charity. I have given it wid a gud heart, its upto God to decide whether it is of use or no!!
So friends I know there will be lots of mixed reactions to this post of mine. If you feel that u should put a point which i dint think abt here, then please go ahead and leave me a comment. after all, this is just a debate of me.. against myself.. mite b someone someday will give a better perspective to my thoughts...