community service: my idealistic bohemianism

Serving my community means to make it a better place. I think it means to bring new ideas and to act upon something that feels right. For instance, I don’t feel as though I am “serving my community” if I am just visiting a forum in which people talk about what needs to be done, but don’t actually go out and do it, or implement ways to accomplish their goals. I think giving back to the community is doing something selfless and is hopefully done as an instinct. And if not an instinct, done often enough that it becomes one.
Helping someone carry something heavy down or up the stairs, returning something lost, or just making a friend feel happier or more welcome are all things that I view as most important to brightening up the world. Even just creating something beautiful in my mind improves the world.
I know people may look at me as an idealist in that sense, but I don’t really care. I don’t believe that I as an individual can do that much, but if anything, at least I am helping a few individuals feel as though someone cares about them or cares about things outside of my own self. Doing a good deed not for an outright benefit, and not because you are forced to is really the only way that I think you can serve your community. It could be related to the services in the honors program in that the honors program tries to brighten up students’ lives by giving them the opportunity to explore themselves and possible futures without as much of an emphasis on finances, which can sometimes get in the way of focusing.