In the words of the famed civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi, "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Those who spend their time making a difference in the lives of people around them tend to know exactly what their calling in life is. Gandhi wrote the truth, and it is not difficult to see in everyday life. Giving back to others is a common theme among scouting organizations, educators, and even books and movies, displaying exactly how much a person can find themselves in the service of others. Two of the most well known organizations for giving back to others is Girl and Boy scouts. Scouts are famous for doing helpful things for other people. The Gold Award and Eagle Award, respectively the highest awards in girl and boy scouting, are centered around …show more content…
Today's school systems constantly reinforce the benefits of helping others. Although many students fail to see it, teachers spend much of their life doing good for others. No one has never gotten into the world of teaching for the money. Those who educate do so because they lost themselves in teaching, and found someone who is meant to spend their life doing so. Just as Gandhi wrote, teachers constantly lose themselves in teaching because they realize the difference they can make in the world. Many popular books and movies portray characters who discover themselves while helping others such as friends, family, and people they have never met. Anyone who has seen the onscreen adaptation of or read Veronica Roth's Divergent series would immediately associate it with Gandhi's statement about the importance of service to others. One of the five groups, or factions as the Roth named them, essentially lives Gandhi's wise words. Roth's protagonist, Tris, was a member of this group, known as the Abnegation. The word simply means selfless. Throughout the series, Tris commits countless acts of service to those around her, constantly jumping at the chance to save the
The Scout Executive of Southern Missouri presented me with a medal and a badge. The award recognized the accomplishments and requirements that an Eagle Scout fulfills. I accepted the award and took my seat. Once the applaud of my fellow scouts and friends died down, I thanked everybody for coming to recognize my accomplishment of becoming an Eagle Scout. I continued to express my gratitude to all the leaders and parents that made my time as a Boy Scout some of the best times I spent in the outdoors. I reflected over the many campouts I took when I was younger and did not yet possess the skills or the equipment that I have since gained. I concluded my speech by thanking the business that sponsored my final service project.
In this regard, the most important part of service to me personally is giving back to the community. Volunteering is my way of providing service to others, it is not only effective, but it’s a good way to meet people, to learn, and to develop social skills. By helping or supporting others, I learned and used new skills in communicating with people and I have gained confidence in myself through different interactions. Providing aid to a family in need or helping out an elementary teacher is necessary, because as people it should be our natural tendencies to support one another, and bring aid when aid is due. For example, at Seven Lakes High school I created the Girls for Krause Club. It was given the name the Girls for Krause club after the Krause Center; a center in Katy that fosters girls who have been taken out of their homes due to sexual harassment, parental mistreatment or mental issues. My first visit to the Krause Center was with my youth group at church. I was so touched by all the girls at the center, and how open they were about their situation. I remember one of the girls telling me thank you, for treating her like “a regular person.” This interaction gave me the incentive to create the Krause club, because I wanted to allow other girls my age to interact with these girls and bring attention to a center that wasn’t well known in my community. Moreover, creating the Krause club has been rewarding and a way to showcase
When my grandfather earned his Eagle Scout Rank in 1933, he unknowingly began what would become a family tradition that has helped mold my personal perspective today. He ignited a passion for Boy Scouts within my family, which continued through my father, and was fulfilled by me when I earned the Rank of Eagle in 2014. Scouting formed me into the person I am today more so than any other activity I have ever been involved with, reinforcing my family’s emphasis on leadership, service, and work ethic.
In todays society there are many things that people can be involved in. One is volunteering. Local organizations around my community are always looking for people to come in and help volunteer with the young and the old. A local Boys and Girls club is one that I volunteer at when ever I get a chance to. Volunteering with the Boys and Girls Club has allowed me to help the boys and girls to have a safe place to come learn and grow while having fun. It is a place where young people can come and know someone cares about them. Volunteering makes a difference in the lives of boys and girls in the community. (Volunteer1) Volunteering with the Boys & Girls Club has taught me more about the organization, what a volunteer does, and what I can learn from volunteering.
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others" Gandhi. I always like to volunteer and join charitable events because their benefits are numerous. For example, volunteering let me meet a wide range of people from different backgrounds and this helped me to enhance my character, improve my social skills, and make me a better citizen. In addition to that, volunteering let me embraces new experiences and knowledge. When I went to a high school in the United States in 2013; I was selected to be a member of the 'National Honor Society’.
I grew up in a home where my parents taught us to serve our country, community and those around us. They taught me through example, my father was a scout leader when I was a child. He often took me camping and to merit badge Pow Wow’s. As a boy I began to dream about becoming a boy scout. When I became old enough I joined the cub scouts. While in Cub scouts I learned about being part of the pack, about working together to accomplish large projects, to work together to accomplish a larger goal. Then when I was older I was able to join the boy scouts they taught me about being a citizen in the community, about being a good neighbor. They taught me about doing a good turn daily, and being prepared. When I was 13, I became a life scout. Being a life scout is not anything special, other than I was able to start working on my eagle project.
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Girl Scout troop 1511 has transformed sufficiently deeper than Monday meetings, camping trips, and a time to see my friends. I joined 12 years ago, unaware of the importance it would it on me. It has become the most consistent and valuable organization I’ve been a part of throughout my life. Girl Scouts has presented me with opportunities that I wouldn’t have been able to accomplish single handedly. It’s led me to become a recipient of the Girl Scout Bronze and Silver Award. Along with having the opportunity to reach out to my community through service projects and gain numerous life skills that I’m able to use on an everyday basis.
Most Boy Scouts get to the second to last rank of scouting, Life. Once this point is reached, there is one last big requirement before the Eagle Scout rank is reached, the service project. This is not an ordinary pick up the trash on the side of the road type of service. This project is meant for only the most dedicated. It involves making something for the community, using the skills learned in the previous ranks, and above all, showing leadership. Due to the incredible amount of work involved, most scouts do not proceed to Eagle, instead they “Life-out.” I would have been a part of that group,
Approaching my senior year, my leaders and friends ask me when I will complete my Eagle Project. My January deadline of my eighteenth birthday is quickly approaching, and after that, to my peers it seems like my scouting career should end. I am not done, that is the legacy I want to leave behind. I believe the hidden lesson scouts teaches us is to give back. We must continue to give back for the rest of our lives. We give back to our communities that support us, families that grow with us, camps we find friends at, and younger scouts that will be in our shoes in a few short
Volunteer work is a task everyone has to take on, whether they are a high school student or a prisoner in jail. Mark Shrivers novel, A Good Man, displays a great understanding and representation of Marywood’s Core value of service. Marywood states service as “A commitment to promoting social responsibility which fosters community engagement to meet real needs.” Shriver demonstrates his use of service throughout the novel many times. Shriver clearly demonstrates the value of service by building and opening programs for those in his community. In A Good Man places such as Head Start and The Peace Corps were built by shriver. The Peace Corps are always there to help others and be supportive to those who are in though times. The Peace Corps, without a doubt, is a great act of service that Shriver represents throughout his
I thought long and hard about the Boy Scout slogan: Do a Good Turn Daily. For years those words echoed at our weekly meetings, but I always wondered, how? How can I do a good turn every day? Surely there is room for flexibility in scouting’s ambitious challenge. I already belonged to a community service organization and was involved with community outreach at my church, but the daily basis challenge seemed daunting. As I continued to think about this, I became inspired to pursue public service as a career. I have learned that when we make profound decisions, opportunity knocks. In my senior year I initiated a capstone project that involved working on a political campaign, and began an internship for Ted Kennedy Jr. Additionally, I joined an unofficial mock congress, where we regularly seek bipartisan compromise on issues such as tax code and foreign policy
As a young Girl Scout, I was always enamored with the notion that I could improve the world even through small acts, like recycling my trash or helping someone with their homework. To think that each deed was a drop in the ocean of change was empowering, yet simultaneously humbling, and the last two lines of the Girl Scout Law helped me establish my place in the world. To me, the idea of making the world a better place reaches far beyond the confines of Girl Scouts, and gives everyone a chance to contribute within their means.
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Last year at this time, I would be meeting with my fellow campers in the Karma Yoga Scholar (KYS) program, which is a program offered to 13-15 year-olds where campers participate in Karma Yoga. Karma Yoga is one of the four pathways to reach salvation as recognized in the Bhagavad Gita and this program installs it through selfless service. I would help clean up the Indian Community Center (Where the camp is held) and do service projects such as gardening and planting a tree. KYS taught me a lot, such as the quote from the great Mahatma Gandhi, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” I can definitely testify to say that this is true and the program has given me new knowledge of myself that I would have never found. But now, as a counselor, I have to help run The India Club. In India Club we teach the campers about Indian culture and history through fun games and activities. Since we are at a summer camp, we have to have some camp like activities so next we have sports and games during the afternoon hours. This is where campers play various games such as ultimate frisbee, cards, four-square, or even catch up on