Many junior high and high schools around the country now require students to spend a certain number of hours each term doing volunteer work or community service. Some people believe this is an excellent idea that promotes good citizenship and cultivates compassion. Others feel that forced volunteerism is not volunteerism at all. How do you feel about this issue?
Farcicality, I say…utter farcicality. Hardly any of the callow youth manifest a firm interest in lending a helpful hand towards their community. The younger generation is too fixated on trivial matters, functioning as the latest gadget, online interaction, game devices, television, lascivious situations, and drug abuse. It’s a perpetual fling that deviates the young from having the slightest fervor of volunteering or to cogitate volunteerism. It has made this generation idle and remiss; therefore, they should be obligated to bestow their time into performing a community service, ensuring that community service will promote good citizenship and cultivate benevolence.
First, we must push teens. The modern generation has a list of priorities and, to be frank, serving the community is not one of them. They tend to do what is in their self-interest—in fact, all people do—by means of pleasuring themselves. Usually, there is a dearth in self-motivation, which is the logic behind the demand of school officials making volunteer service mandatory. Consistently, the mature horde leads the way in community activism and it has been that way for quite some time. If the modern generation can't do it themselves, someone will have to tell them that they need some experience helping others and being altruistic.
Volunteering pushes out selfishness and creates a well-rounded person. It opens teens' eyes to the poverty this country is tainted with. Then will make them sick to their stomachs to see how worse off someone else can be. The modern generation, I will assume, has an adequate acquaintance with some characteristic of poverty, so they can't entirely ignore it. Once they volunteer, the charming qualities of a human being will emerge and those qualities will avail them throughout life. Usually helping someone makes a person feel good .Studies show people live a happier life when they are positive. Teens are sure to feel the same way when they help.
Yet, that is just the beginning. There is more to it than simply volunteering and changing one's personality. They will build connections, meaning that when they are in a predicament they will have relationships established to accommodate as recourses to attain what they need. On the contrary, crime abates because the community helps all of its members; thus, people wouldn’t have to resort to dire measures when they are confident that they could rely on their community. Foremost, community service creates a nexus with the larger body and the individual. It gives the individual a sense of belonging—crucial for all people who are on the path to self-identity.
Ultimately, community service should be a requirement and not something school officials hope for. There are too many things going on for us not to help out; not helping will make us bad Samaritans. Also, it is obvious that we need volunteers and community organizations to care for the basic needs of the worse off, so this is an extremely good help to improving ourselves and everyone around us. Just imagine every six billionth head in the world doing that and this world will be a much different place.
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