i wanna be a volunteer again

since actually writing about one of those list items below is like the typo i just erased (a lost item...i'll go back though for SURE)

this will fall under BEING THANKFUL
cause we all got something to be thankful for

starting here:
-if you're reading this blog, you're alive--thank God

-if you're reading this blog, you have some control over what comes into your mind and probably aren't held captive (for too long) by bureatically controlled media sources that spew out all different (often dishonest) versions of the truth

-if you're reading this blog, you're likely not a victim of any present-day physically threatening crime against humanity

-if you're reading this blog, you're probably not a victim of torture (as it pertains to detainees from a certain war)

-if you're reading this blog you're among the 82% of literate people in the world...nice number, but what about the other 18%?

so alls i'm saying is, let's reach back and pull forward
there are a lot of ways to give back to the world we've been living in for however many years we've been blessed with
hence my pronouncement: i wanna be a volunteer again

high schoolers have community service requirements for graduation but i think it's unlikely that their hearts are always in it
i find that when we're forced to do something, we don't grow from it the way we would if it were by choice

there are all kinds of philosophical debates for and against my views there, not to mention the argument: well who cares if their heart is in it if the good is being done?
what i'd beg to ask then (obviously depending on the actual services being rendered) is: is it good if someone who doesn't want to volunteer goes in angry and ruins the day for those to whom he/she is supposed to be catering?

all theoretical...all a way for me to ramble away from the point, which is: let's live again in a world that suggests a "give and then take" lifestyle

i believe it's supposed to feel pretty good and add years to lives (on both sides)