Serving Them or Yourself | Aaron Lee

Recently, a friend of mine quit his volunteering. When I asked as to why he quit, it was because he enjoyed focusing on another organization for volunteering, and he had grown discontent with his current one. After I advised him not to quit, he responded that he had already received a lot of hours and didn't need as many any more. It made me think, just a bit, after hearing those words. After all, service was about giving to the community, right? Those countless hours spent helping his organization - didn't those hours result in a net positive change to the community? Wouldn't people want to keep that consistency? As we serve our community, we should learn to look past the numerical statistics. A hundred hours served without passion is of far worse significance than a passionate thirty hours done with the right mindset. True: we all like to consider ourselves caring members of our community, and some of us might do complete more than thirty hours, for show. But we should all learn to look past the importance of those numbers and instead at the importance of the positive impact you make on the world, as that is a key factor in helping society progress today.