Mother Teresa is one of the greatest people of all time. She spent her entire life serving others.
She did not worry about her own personal needs. She would rather live in poverty and help poor people than be wealthy and help no one. Mother Teresa lived in self caused poverty because she felt that was her call. Mother Teresa was born into a wealthy family in Belgium. People who knew her at an early age described her as a goody-goody.
Mother even taught her parents to be people. Mother Teresas father owned a construction business and therefore her family was affluent. But this all changed when her father died at the age of 42. Her family became extremely poor.
At the age of 18, Mother Teresa left her family and went to India. Mother Teresa never saw her family again. While in India, Mother Teresa joined the Loretta congregation. Since she was well educated, she taught Geography to her sisters.
After 20 years in the Loretta congregation, she left to help the poor and the sick. She felt that this was her call. Mother Teresa at an early age was accustomed to seeing many different types of people. She probably ran into many impoverished people.
This is where she got her call. India at the time of Mother Teresa was in chaos. Gandhi had just been assasinated and the country was in a state of civil war. Many people who had already been extremely poor became desditute. They had no means to take care of themselves.
They needed help and they needed it bad. Mother Teresa felt that it was her vocation to help these people. She was the only person who tried to do anything about their impoverishment. Mother Teresa did most of her work in Calcutta, India. It was a somewhat modern city with many rich people in it, but the majority of the population was dirt poor.
