McGill Charities is a staging platform and name for my efforts, no matter how infantile, to do what I can for those less fortunate than myself. I believe ardently that we all have an obligation and duty to do what we can for others, no matter how difficult the job looks, and no matter how little power we feel that we each have. There is always something we can do for other people that can have a tremendous impact in that person's life. McGill Charities does not accept donations or financial contributions of any kind, nor do we solicit them. Any of the efforts made under the auspices of McGill Charities is financed by me and my family.
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do."
~ Edward Everett Hale
Many people have helped me to reach my current position in my journey through this life. They have nurtured my aspirations, persevered my lesser qualities, and put in precious time with me; the time where you expect nothing in return except the joy of knowing you have shared your life experiences with another human being, because he is your brother in humanity. I want nothing more than to use any and every success I have been blessed with, now and in the future, to help others as they have helped me. Each step I take forward, I plan on taking others with me. I know that I have a greater debt to repay - that I too must share with others, and I feel deeply compelled to spend my time and resources doing just that.
In order to deserve we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love. But even with all of my experiences I know that I am naïve, but not so much so, as to not know that we are all naïve. We are all struggling, whether we know it at times or not. Even in our moments of individual bliss, an incubus of ignorance, fear and hunger still haunts large regions of the world. I am recalcitrant to the ever pervasive ethos of apathy that haunts my part of the world, but not nearly enough. We all need to intimately know the sorrows of others, so that the saying, "There but for the grace of God, go I," becomes an epitaph to our indifference, rather than a trite allegory of elitism for those who have forgotten that they too are human, that they too are frail, that they too are subject to such miseries.
And, in this dervish whirlwind of vanity, indifference, greed and ignorance we fuel, we all at times, ask whatever forces we believe in for clarity and meaning of our purpose in this existence; let us all make our meaning known through our service to those human beings, whose existence they know, only as vessels of pain and suffering.
