The importance of donating anything 

I once read a great article about the objects that people forget in the New York subway.

 The number of objects that will stop the lost and found, and frightening, form a curious collection. 

Between portfolios and documents (among the objects recovered by more forgotten on call), you can also find stuffed animals, bowling balls, a ball cannon, firearms, sheets, tiles and cement bags, surfboards and some chairs wheel -

 yes, wheelchairs! Objects that are not recovered within a period of six months are then donated to charity or auctioned off for the money to be reversed. 

But the question is: 

why a charity would need a surfboard?

 And that reminded me of unusual donations we find documented on the internet.

 After the tragedy caused by summer rains in Teresopolis (RJ) in 2011, the Red Cross, who organized the collection of donations, recorded a considerable number of carnival costumes, ranging from the simplest models -

 Indian, caveman, Hawaiian - to more elaborate, made ​​for the parade on the Marquis de Sapucai.

 Another "unusual" and controversial case involving campaign donations was organized by the family of a Brazilian politician raising funds to pay his bail and release him. 

People apparently donate all!

 

But what really can give more valuable? Food? Warm clothes in winter? 

Building material?

 Diapers and powdered milk for daycare?

 Drugs in nursing homes?

 Yes, we know that all these actions, regardless of the scale on which they are made, are very relevant.

 But today I'm here to talk about a most valuable well and almost never think to donate:

 time. 

Right now, there are countless children in hospital beds waiting for transplants or by the effect of a process of chemotherapy and all of them suffer from loneliness and deprivation of their normal activities.

 Right now, there are thousands of homeless people without access to culture, information and unable to aspire to a better life through education.

 There are elderly forgotten by their families at home resting.

 Around it, there are lonely and invisible neighbors carrying heavier bags than they can bear.

 There needy children needing a school reforcing

 in Mathematics, or help to put together a mockup of Styrofoam pretty well for the school presentation.

 Parents and grandparents waiting for an invitation to stroll around the block or company to do the show this week. 

Friends need help to assemble a bookshelf in complicated new and coworkers who live in the same neighborhood and you return bus home while your passenger seat is empty.

 

 To illustrate how this intangible property is highly valued today, I cite the example of Bliive platform, created by Brazilian university Lorrana Scarpioni, 23, where users exchange time.

 That's it. If you play guitar very well, can offer an hour videoaula to another user interested and gain credit for a time in another activity of interest. 

The idea Lorrana shows that the spirit of giving in the modern world, marries perfectly with the collaborative spirit, since the purpose of both is to generate growth of the parties involved. 

So, how about starting to think about getting rid of that surfboard you last used in 1992, buy a can of milk on the market or book two horinhas a week to help the people around you?

 You may not appear in a funny matter as the New York subway,........ but I bet your heart (and many others) will smile pretty