Which NGO (Non govarnmental organisation) are you from?'
I get asked more than I am asked my name.
When I say I don't belong to any, eyebrows are knit.
Immediately I am looked at with suspicion.
If I am not a part of any NGO, then what right have I to offer support to anything? No matter what it is - a concept, a life or a faith, where is my license?
Sometimes I need to fill out forms which ask for the name of the organisation I belong to. There I write 'my own'. Nobody has questioned that yet, so I am encouraged to continue.
Just recently I was asked for my credentials.
I replied that I didn't have any as of that minute, but within the next half hour I could perhaps drum up some. That was a bit of a conversation stopper.
Why am I not adequate?
Why do I have to belong to or be part of something to justify an instinct?
I get asked more than I am asked my name.
When I say I don't belong to any, eyebrows are knit.
Immediately I am looked at with suspicion.
If I am not a part of any NGO, then what right have I to offer support to anything? No matter what it is - a concept, a life or a faith, where is my license?
Sometimes I need to fill out forms which ask for the name of the organisation I belong to. There I write 'my own'. Nobody has questioned that yet, so I am encouraged to continue.
Just recently I was asked for my credentials.
I replied that I didn't have any as of that minute, but within the next half hour I could perhaps drum up some. That was a bit of a conversation stopper.
Why am I not adequate?
Why do I have to belong to or be part of something to justify an instinct?
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