This is my first time to act as volunteer and I choose to join a walking for lupus which is called The Alliance for Lupus Research(ALR) on October 22,2011.Basically, it is a national voluntary health organization in New York City that was founded in 1999. The walk aims to draw people’s attention to the Lupus and make a contribution to the Lupus research. In my opinion, this walk can awaken people to the fact that they could do something for the community and society.
Actually, I felt surprised when I initially heard that I have to do community service in order to pass the class, because I have never done a volunteer job before and got no idea about it. Consequently, I have to follow my group members’ decision, and that’s my initial reason for choosing this community service.
In the beginning, my entire mind was thinking that this project would be boring and I would not enjoy myself during this walking. Nevertheless, I changed my mind after I actually pay my attention to this walking, and I didn’t regret to give my time and energy to engage in this walking. the reason was that I found a lot of people join this walking with their whole family and they enjoyed themselves with great passions, even though they didn’t have any relationships with those patients, and then I was so inspired by their behavior and their speech that they could encourage Lupus patients to fight against the disease and focus on the positive outcomes.
My most trying experience in this community service project was to walk through the whole journey as possible as I can. However, I could not finish entire miles because I felt extremely tired after the several miles. This experience taught me that when people tried their best to do something, it did not make any sense about the outcomes. In addition, this experience changed my ways of thinking, attitudes and actions.We should appeal other people to contribute to those people who need help in society, also we should have a positive attitudes on everything. Moreover, I learnt that we need to develop a good skill on team work, because we should work with a lot of people in order to deal with different kind of cases when we lived in the same society.
Overall, I satisfied with my experience because after I took part in this event, my previous views about the society were totally changed, people tried to utilize different sources to corporate with each other to help the lower-class, so that the people from lower-class could reduce suffering in their rest of lives.
Throughout this community service project, I realize that I am also on a way to improve myself while helping others. As a result, I am looking forward to participate in more community service during my college and adult years.
The happiness comes from helping others.
