What does it mean to serve your community? Well, if I were to put it in the most simple terms, I would say that it is to give our time back to the community. How and where would we be able to do so? To be honest you can do anything anywhere for anyone. I would justify it being community service to hand a homeless person a $5 bill, but it wouldn’t be quite as satisfying as giving back in the form of time. This weekend my team and I went to this Church in Manhattan and served the homeless food. It was a very satisfying and joyful experience seeing the looks on their faces when we put food on their trays! As kids we would take food for granted and say “ewww salad and veggies” all the time, but acknowledged that there were people out there without food when we were growing up. We never saw this firsthand, so unconsciously we were still dismissive of the notion that people were hungry and would eat anything they got their hands on. While doing community service this weekend we saw how eagerly people stared at us while waiting on line as if we were some sort of saviors or something. And to some extent I did start feeling like I was there that day for a reason; I was there not to serve the community as a class requirement, but rather to bring joy and potentially life to an entire group of needy people! I wish everyone would just spend time every now and then to help other people out. They say that to solve your problems you have to help others solve theirs’! Well I feel as though this solved all my not-so-big-of-a-deal problems that I initially perceived to be huge. I’m looking forward to going back next weekend to help more people out!
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