Paying it Forward.

It took me some time to figure out what this all meant. In class last Friday was my first time seeing clips from the movie but I trusted Zac's opinion when he said, "You've never seen it?! Its a great movie!" over peanut butter and jelly sandwich making. 

When I got home and throughout this past week I have been receiving tons of emails about new service opportunities. I found myself opening every single one and actually reading them instead of skimming through them to send them over to the VP of Philanthropy for AEPhi. I realized what it all meant. I knew why I wanted to read the emails and respond back, "YES!" more now than ever before. I can blame this on our class discussions from last Friday. 

Through out high school I never really participated in community service unless a class or an extracurricular required it. When I became a member of a PHA sorority it all changed. I was doing service hours every week. I was tutoring and going to the Boys & Girls Club, I became very involved in our sorority's philanthropies. I realize now I do this because I can. I never really put it into perspective until the other week. 

I have the resources and the ability to help myself and help others. Now is time to take advantage of that well-being. We are all college students, we are all members of an organization that prides itself on service and helping others who are less fortunate. We are paying it forward everyday. If we are doing it via our organization or through BuckeyeThon, or just volunteering at the hospital. We all have the abilities to do so many things to help other people, it would be selfish if we didn't.

The reason we watched those clips and made sandwiches wasn't to take up time and leave us hungry and craving peanut butter and jelly, it was to teach why our four councils work together to do the things we do. To teach us that we do this to be selfless so that we can use our resources to help others who don't have them. We do this so we can help people, who in turn can help other people. We want to start a chain of people helping other people who are less fortunate than them. We learned these things last Friday so we can teach the people in our chapters and our councils and they can teach the rest of the University, essentially we could all be helping each other.