service above self

Service Above Self
Giving your self to service is life’s true fulfillment. There is no better feeling than helping the less fortunate. I myself have had hands on experience with community service and it has changed me in miraculous ways. Last summer I started volunteering at Joe DiMaggio’s Children’s Hospital. Eager to help I went in with my eyes closed and learned lessons I thought I would never learn.
At the beginning of my journey I saw this hospital like any other one, one that is designed to cure the ill. But this hospital is in a league all its own; putting smiles on the patients faces regardless of how sick they really are. This is a place in which sick children can be themselves regardless of prejudice and stereotyping. The world is a cruel place and these poor innocence beings just need a place to forget their worries and Joe DiMaggio is a place to let loose.
Many of my tasks at the hospital where hands on. Reading, playing, arts and crafts, or just ...