2nd Day

My second post… This post it is different than 1^st Day (http://servicelearningrels204.blogspot.com/2007/09/1st-day.html). On the 1^st day I attended to Dubuque Humane Society and this day I went to St. Vincent de Paul Society. The experiences were the exact opposite of each other; one had to do with animals that have been a banded and the other one has to do with humans who give, to hopefully receive something back in the future.

Today I noticed that the world that we are living in is only being enjoined by a few people. What I mean, is that between the three kinds of societies that are in this world (low class, middle class, and high class), only the high class is the one who really enjoy the world with out any problems. We have people with nothing trying to become somebody. In their path they help or get helped by somebody else from the same kind of society or lower.

I never been in a place or imagined a place where people could go to buy used stuff. After volunteering at St. Vincent’s, I realized that I should be grateful with what I have and should not be thinking about buying more stuff. Sometimes in our society we don’t realize or know our limits to what we should have. We are so selfish with ourselves that we never think that there are people in the world who are needy. Whenever we go to the mall we always say “Oh, I think that I would wear this shirt some day in the future.” Instead we should be thinking, “Oh, how about if I buy some shirts and/or food for somebody that need it more than I do.

I think that we categorize too much and don’t appreciate all we have, and never say thank you to God for what we have, and how we got it.