If I Were Queen...

If I were Queen, I would make community service mandatory for all citizens living in my kingdom. Now I know what all of you are thinking, community service?! I barely have time to do my own laundry, house cleaning and homework! The community service could be anything from cleaning up the neighborhood they live in to volunteering at the local hospital. How much time do we sit around thinking about what we need to do… or “stalking” people on Facebook… playing video games or watching TV?

Imagine if we all gave one or two hours a week to serving others in our community.

No one person can carry the world on their shoulders or take the blame or credit for all that happens in the world. By bringing people together, we would be making the world around us a better place to live and work. Through interactions fostered by working with others, people would learn from each other and broaden their perspectives. I firmly believe that everyone can be teaching someone something new. It all starts with a spark of curiosity that fuels the lifelong journey to wanting to understand the fellow man and yearning to make a difference in someone else’s life and together we would set in motion a community of compassion and teamwork. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that we should never look down upon a man except when bending down to pull him or her up. When we seek to understand another person’s wants, needs and desires, we create not only an environment of trust, but a community of people helping people. It would be my hope that we could begin living with intention and seeking to make a difference in other peoples’ lives.