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November 16, 2004
Legend's View:
Little things make the world nicer
Every day, people volunteer, that is, according to the dictionary: performing a service of one’s own free will, or doing charitable or helpful work without pay.
Of course, volunteering isn’t only about going to nursing homes, or racking up hours behind the desk (or file cabinet) of an official organization. Small things done every day that contribute to the well-being of all of society — that is another type of volunteerism.
Think of this: when a person helps someone else with their homework, isn’t it usually free? And helpful? Doesn’t it contribute --indirectly maybe -- to the general bettering of mankind?
When someone picks up a piece of garbage on the ground and throws it away for the person who dropped it — isn’t that performing a service of one’s own free will?
Both of these tiny little actions may never be noted by anyone else, but they make the world a better, more pleasant place to live.
On the other hand is “reverse volunteering”; unfortunately, it usually involves Legend readers, smokers and slobs.
Reverse volunteers tend to drop whatever they have on the ground; assuming, possibly, that they have an invisible slave to pick up after them. The point is, they make the world a little messier.
Fortunately, here at MCC, the volunteers seem to outweigh the reverse volunteers, so the campus looks nice, and there’s not too much grousing about people who don’t pick up after themselves.
Now if only the chair “unpushers” would start volunteering, too...
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