Answering Reader's Questions

Ever since Kal's Korner made its debut here, I have received literally thousands of letters from the many readers of iDnes and Metropolitni Expres. I would like to thank everyone, sincerely, for their enormous interest and support.

Notebook, kotě | foto: Profimedia.cz

Please keep your great ideas, comments and suggestions coming, I look forward to reading more of them.

Here are two answers for readers Hana and Jirka.

"Are you some sort of  'missionary' or something like that? Why do you always try to help people?

Answer: The short answer is no, I am not a missionary or anything of the sort. Instead, I enjoy helping people because it is the right thing to do!

Unfortunately, in this world today there are far too many takers and there are not enough givers.
Help comes in many forms, for it is infinite. It is everything from helping a senior citizen to cross the street, to when you see that a tourist is obviously lost, and you help them to find their way.

When a person does NOT want to help another human being, they are being what is called self-absorbed and they are caught up only in their own matters and are not concerned about others.

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For every person who doesn't care, they should be grateful that there are people who still DO care.
Those who live "only for themselves" will need someone else or others some day for assistance, perhaps even to save their life or to call emergency services.

Helping people is only the right thing to do.

Question: Why are you living here in the Czech Republic?

Answer: I live here because my ancestors are from this region, and I feel that I can be a better American by living outside of the United States.

You see, being American is both an idea and an ideal.
It is an idea because America is not so much a country as it is a dream, a vision. America is the vision of a nation where immigrants from all countries can live together peacefully without regard for race or religion.

Since America is for everyone, and its existence and creation was founded on the principles of being a free and democratic immigrant nation, ideal Americans are aware of this and they work hard in respect of this.

Ideal Americans are individuals who become involved in world affairs and in helping people in different countries. They not only help teach, contribute and guide and lead others, but most importantly they (the Americans) also learn, and in genuinely humility and with open eagerness, rightfully move forward in common cause with other people to achieve mutual objectives.

They foster peaceful greatness because by working together, focusing to solve problems and offering help, people can achieve and accomplish anything.

. Joke of the Day

A Czech family was worried about their son who was getting very bad grades in his math class.

Desperate to find a solution, this Czech family did something radical, and sent him away to a Catholic private school.
By the end of the year, this Czech boy had perfect A+ grades!

"Petr," why are you suddenly so good at math?" his father asked him one day.
"When I got to that new school," Petr answered, "I saw this guy nailed to a big plus sign, so I knew I had to take this school seriously."

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