Wow. So I've decided to start a blog. =D Hehe. First, it seems to me that blogs are like... journals. Journals that the whole world can read. Sorta an odd thought, but at the same time, they seem really good for getting what you want to say out there. If you're reading this, then cool. Thanks. You must be exceedingly bored. =P
Something that I enjoy immensely is volunteering. ^_^ I'll volunteer for anything almost. I love it. I've done a lot of it in my 16 years of life and I'll continue to do it. I'm of the opinion that it's volunteers that make the world go round, really.
Anyways, this weekend at my church my family and I volunteered to help out with LINK in our holiday food drive. There was tons of food delivered to our church and then sorted and distributed on all these tables in the Fellowship Hall. We boxed it all up and stacked it behind the tables. It was a lot of work, but there were a lot of volunteers so it didn't take to awfully long. =) My fam and I helped out with all this sorting and boxing on Thursday and Friday. Saturday was the most workingest day. My fam was at the church for 9 hours working. We did a little of everything. Stocked tables, helped peeps "shop", bagged the groceries they chose, cleaned up, hauled tables up and down stairs *a lot* and all the other things that needed to be done.
It didn't seem like we did much. I didn't feel like I was making some huge impact. I didn't really get those "warm fuzzies" that magazines like Seventeen tell you is one of the only reasons to volunteer. (The other being it looks good on college applications.) I wasn't doing it because I was forced. I volunteered my time and skills to help other people. To help the woman who never thought she'd ever being getting food from a food drive, but after an illness of her daughter's, she was compelled to do so. (By the way, I thought that this woman was really quite amazing, and I didn't even get to hear her full story. She even asked me if I thought that the coat drive at another church would be willing to take some of hers, because she had a bunch from before her daughter became ill and was heavier.) My fam and I get a lot of praise for being such great workers. And I guess we are. I mean. We were there *all* day long--longer than anyone save Betty, the woman who was running the whole thing, but I just feel silly and embarrassed having peeps get so excited and thank us so much. It's what any decent person should do. As a Christian, God commands us to do that. To help people. Treat people the way we wish to be treated. That's all I was doing...
So yeah... =P I dunno... I guess I'm not sure if there is even a point in all of this. I just think that volunteering is important, I love to do it, and I think that it's one of the most important things we can do.
Hi Riah!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you. Volunteering is soooo important. People often don't see that but it is. I know who you feel about being praised for it. When ever I help out at church or whatever and people get all wowed by it, I just feel like 'seriously, it's no big deal. It's just the right thing to do.' And then I get all embarrassed because they make a big deal out of nothing. So yeah, I'm just rambling but I wanted to tell ya that I agree with ya and know how ya feel. And I like your blog.
Love ya,
Melody