- I'm not a great Facebook user, but it's pretty frequent to see a post from someone relaying a good deed they did for a homeless person... however, there are often qualifiers as to why they accepted to help that person... 

My preference is for good deeds

To be done in private between

The one giving and the one receiving.

What we see too much of is good

Deeds being publicly exhibited, but only

So the one giving looks good to others.

But often, those who choose to exhibit

Their good deeds in this manner usually

Ruin it with their closed-minded attitude.

Adding qualifiers such as the person they

Helped was not a drug addict or alcoholic, so

Their help would not be used 'inappropriately'.

If you're going to help someone, that

Doesn't mean you get to place conditions

Or decide how your help gets used.

You either help them, or you don't.

Just because you decide to help doesn't

Mean you know what's best for them.

Making a point to advertise the person

Was not a drug addict or an alcoholic, as if

If they were, they weren't worthy of help,

Completely annuls any feeling of admiration

I might have felt for your good deed toward

Another in need, true help excludes judgements.

Your public display of this awesome deed

You want everyone to know you did is just

So others see how good of a person you are.

But that is simply not the vibe I get from it.

Deciding and justifying that one is more worthy

Than another to receive your help isn't kind at all.

Very far from the spirit of wanting to help.

So yeah, sorry, I'm really not impressed.