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First, if you give someone something out of genuine generosity, you shouldn't mind how they spend it. If you tie your own conditional restrictions, you immediately reduce generosity to something more akin to a financial transaction where you expect something specific in return.
Second, why should self-medication be the exclusive privilege of those who can hide it behind clean clothes and shiny cars?
Third, I've always considered carrying a roll of quarters with me everywhere to dispense to all who ask me. I get about five or so requests a day during the work week.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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