When I was studying in university, money was tight. I wasn’t getting any allowance from the parents, I had to work a job that pays $200 per month just to tide me through university.
Naturally, you start evaluating what you should have and what you shouldn’t have. When it comes to food, the more you eat, the more it removes hunger for now and perhaps for the next meal.
I had good friends then. When they couldn’t finish their food, I would make a request and they would obliged to pass it to me. Its a natural and rational thing to do back then.
Looking back, I received this sharing on a mailing list on the experience of Adam Braun, who wrote “The promise of a pencil: How an ordinary person can create extraordinary change”.
...Adam was at a nice restaurant in NYC eating a fancy steak dinner. After ...