Sandra Bullock has a noble sense of humanity
Bullock is a Hollywood star, but she is no ordinary Hollywood belle!
Yes, her role in The Blind Side won her a Golden Globe Best Actress award, while The Proposal starred by her earlier has been a global box office hit.
Oh yes, she was also starring in a 1990s blockbuster Speed, although in the movie she was nothing more than just an ornament to Keanu Reeves.
These are not reasons enough for me to show her some respect.
Her performing skills are at best above average, while her movies are not really my cup of tea.
But Bullock recently donated US$1 million to the Medicine Sans Frontiers for relief works in Haiti.
Several years ago, she forked out US$1 million for the International Red Cross Society after the Indian Ocean tsunami, and a considerable sum of money towards the Katrina relief fund back home.
There are plenty in Hollywood that are more famous and loaded than Bullock, but few would go such length for charity.
When asked why she wanted to donate, Bullock said calmly, "Because I can!"
An utterly simple statement out of the mouth of such a noble lady!
It is such a simple thing, absolutely no complicated afterthoughts.
Of course, donations can never be equated with nobility, but her attitude and perception of life!
I saw Tzu Chi volunteers holding up banners to persuade shoppers in the mall to donate.
That, was also a manifestation of noble human nature.
While shoppers might see them as nuisance or even threats, whom they would do everything to shun, but in reality, we are trying to lock ourselves in from the outside world.
Haiti is half a world away from us. The country has not enjoyed good reputation or image even before the massive earthquake struck.
We used to be thinking that this country was a total mess and its people, despicable and hopeless.
But 200,000 lives do not make up just a statistical figure.
They are all individual lives!
Each of these lives has its unique significance. And in this world, any life that is in being is not in solitary existence, but synergistic, interdependent co-existence.
Warren Buffet has made loads of money, but he has not developed the slightest sense of guilt for so doing.
He keeps all his materials accomplishments in the form of cheques waiting to be cashed in time to help the underprivileged or for social causes.
