Reflective Essay

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Reflective Essay In my opinion, community service is far more important to me than just having it to graduate high school. It is important to me because it goes to show how much you truly care about helping people that cannot do for themselves such as elderly people or just lending a helping hand. Community service became not only something I had to do but something I enjoyed doing. It helped me understand that I don’t have to do things just to get paid for doing them. I figured with the opportunity to do community service, I could take advantage of this situation and choose something that would help the community with whatever they needed. My fifty hours consisted of mainly giving people a helping hand, nothing spectacular. The first couple of hours required me to help out a neighbor by mowing their lawn. The reason I chose to assist with mowing is because I could see that they were already tied up with numerous things to do. Another job I had to do was help my uncle with his dogs, this required me to come feed, water, and bathe them. Then, the rest of my hours came from picking up branches and clearing logs and trees. Even though I was not alone while working, it was still a pretty tough objective. In conclusion, community service is important to me because it provides me with eye-opening experiences while benefitting many people. Knowing that a great impact can be made on others lives, through simple actions, makes the work worthwhile. Giving back to the community provides a rewarding sense of pride. I volunteer in my community not because it looks good on a piece of paper, but because it is easy to forget about our fellow

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