I myself as a person, don’t agree with the way people are very selfish and are out only to benefit themselves. Although I have not been in the position to hold a job at a corporation or big business, I have had the experience of being in a large school for the past five years and have built up friendships with many people in my age group. Over the past few years, I have witnessed them develop as a person and for the most part people have turned out pretty good.

At the start of this school year, I started notic

ing that more and more of my friends were starting to tutor younger students, donate plasma, and do volunteer work in the community. I have been assisting my peers and volunteering for many years and at first I thought that these people were becoming better people. I was very wrong. I soon found out when I was talking to them that they were doing it for completely selfish reasons. The only reason that they were doing these services was to improve their chances of getting into University and obtaining scholarships. Now although the community is temporarily benefiting from these students helping in various volunteer opportunities, they were doing it for completely the wrong reasons and I do not agree with what they are doing. Volunteering isn’t out there so that you can improve your resume or obtain scholarships. It is out there because there is someone out there who needs our help. When I was a young teenager, my mom started me on volunteering and at first I would do small projects such as a garbage cleanup of my neighbourhood. As I grew, so did the volunteer opportunities that I partook in. Now I am the President of OSAID (Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving) for Thunder Bay and am a member of Rotaract which is an off-chute of Rotary. What we do is find community projects that need a helping hand and we even help out in an international project with Rotary International to help ra

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