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Spring is a time of renewal, reinvention, and reinspiration. So my question is this: What have you done recently to serve your community?
It’s easy to forget about volunteerism as the weather warms up, school draws to a close, and spring sports seasons get fired up, but are those truly acceptable excuses? Our communities, neighborhoods, and cities are crying out for help. Let’s face it: There’s a ton of hurt in the world today.
Muhammad Ali once said, “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth,” and I can’t help but agree with him. What are we contributing to if not to our own backyards—our sources of education, entertainment, empowerment, and VOICE?
Check out this other amazing quote from Charles F. Kettering, an inventor. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Get inspired! Get out there and use your voice, talent, and heart to make those memorable changes you seek in the world, for the world has been waiting for you.
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Katie on April 27 at 8:10 p.m.
Our school does a huge blood drive twice a year and the next one is coming up in May. I’m eligible for this one so I signed up, but I’m really nervous. I have a huge needle-phobia and I recently had a panic attack while we watched a drug movie (there were some shooting up images!) in class. Hopefully it all goes well…this is a major fear I want to get over to help others.
Mariah on April 27 at 9:13 p.m.
Grrr. I can’t give blood. I seriously wanted to. That was on my ‘list of things to do when I turn 16.’ I can’t, for a stupid reason. GRRRRR!
yaychloeyay on April 28 at 5:59 a.m.
ya - i totally feel your pain mariah! i can’t either…
i was so jazzed about turning 16: get the liscence! get some freedom! give blood! (that did cross my mind, we do big all-school blood drives like katie’s…) and i can’t give blood. ugh..no fair.
Mariah on April 28 at 8:22 p.m.
I know. And I don’t have a license yet. They promise- soon, soon.
yaychloeyay on April 29 at 3:36 p.m.
same here - there’s always the promise….
:)