In our service project this week, you gave of your time and energy
to benefit those in need. Does this qualify as altruism? How does
the expenditure of human resources, time, and/or services relate to the
financial donations such as those undertaken by those who have made the Giving
Pledge? Those who make micro-loans?
After Cleaning up some of the destruction
and mess the flood in the Missouri Park had caused, as freshman partners we
felt the lack of human labor that exists at this kind of catastrophes. It is sad but at the same time
motivating the fact that we were the largest group which had offered help in
the labor done at the park.
The feeling I sensed is that sometimes
there is no spot for a “lack” of altruism… in a situation like this in a minute
that you stop walking towards the goal during the hours left you would realize that
you will freeze your self and start thinking how much work, how much time is
left to be done… that’s not the important thing, or even begin asking yourself:
“Am I actually doing a difference?”
On the other hand if you become a proactive
person and begin sharing your humanity, your heart and your communication you
will find out that all the physical activity was just an art of team working.
Like in the Giving Pledge people like
George Lucas having faith in education and progress by putting his money and
effort into this area, helps the world, we all as freshman students used our service, our heart and our faith to make the working day the more active and positive we were
able to.
Now the Missouri Park is still in need of cleaning, people that can help cleaning up the mud and restoring the playground and baseball areas could still make groups for making its rehabilitation possible.
The activity done: http://cliffnewsnet.org/node/210
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