Me and beggar

Me and beggar
I used to be dine out sometimes with friends at work, and one night we decided to have dinner at a place nearby one of train station in town. Sounds of train passing by that place sometimes swallowed our laughter and voices. We have a good time that time, so we didn’t quite notice the presence of a young man who stood right in front of out table. That man carried a box noted “charity for the orphanage”, and he said some word which I conclude as a begging. I grabbed my purse and pulled out sum of money to him, then that young man leave the place. Right after he left, a friend of mine give a different vision about this matter and then we jump up into quite long discussion about this.
My friend said, he couldn’t approve what I have done to that beggar. He said, I will make them more satisfied with their current activity, and the money which I gave to the beggar won’t lead him no where but stucked in the same place, because he still found opportunity to earn money with this activity.
Actually, I never thought that far. I only see that he needs money and I have some to share. And there’s no feeling in my heart that make me comfortable with the action I’ve done, caused by grateful of being better than that man. I know it’s just simple answer, and I couldn’t satisfy my friends inquiry about the evince from my action.
I can deny that sometimes we just couldn’t easily rid off our sympathy while we saw a beggar. I understand why my friend would prefer educate those people that begging isn’t really our destiny. People do have choices to play their best role in life instead of become a beggar. I know this well, but sometime when we looked arround, we don’t really have neat medium to share our fortune to others who need them. There’s no institutions or regulation which can lead us to better order of sharing some of our possession. This problem is common in the entire world, and people out there also facing the same problem as we do.
But sometimes we just can’t confidence with the policy of our government who already took taxes from us to reduce the number of poverty. Though taxes still the major income for the government, but we have to admit that they don’t spend them as we expected. And then how about the zakat? (which should be a medium for muslims to spend their 2,5% of their fortune for the needy. There’s no particular medium to collect and share them which touch entire elements of muslims in this country. So, the are plenty of sporadic institution which collect and spend zakat in this country. Which they aren’t centralized, plenty of discrepancy in distribution might occur.
With this phenomenon, who won’t react as I do when the meet beggar on the street. There is no doubt that we really need order to make the entire country as a safe place and prosper one for its people. While there is no sufficient medium to collect and share some of people fortune and distribute them well for the needy, beggar will still appear. And people who couldn’t do anything to change people’s thought will only get carried away with perhaps wrong expression of sympathy.
In life, we’re all beggar cause we don’t exactly have anything to claim as our own possessions. Everything belong to God, and God sometimes took but sometime grant us with fortune. Facing this, we only beg for God mercy, to give us the best. So, we’re all beggar in front of God, but in life we still got plenty of chances to stand up on our own feet and try not to trouble others for our existence in life