Thursday, May 5, 2011
IMPORTANCE OF DIGNITY
I think that service is important as a life experience for a couple of reasons; first it helps you learn and work on new things about yourself. Such as your ability to be patient, also it helps you to become a teacher and help people understand things. Second it helps other people and it makes you feel good afterwards. I always felt good leaving the YMCA because I know that I just did something good for someone who needed it.
It’s good for my human dignity and that of others. It shows me how people should be treated and it’s good that I learn this because if I treat everyone with dignity, which is an important life skill, it will get you far. And for others it treats them with respect and doesn’t judge them on what they can’t do, making them feel good about themselves, in the end making you feel good that you helped someone out.
It’s good for my human dignity and that of others. It shows me how people should be treated and it’s good that I learn this because if I treat everyone with dignity, which is an important life skill, it will get you far. And for others it treats them with respect and doesn’t judge them on what they can’t do, making them feel good about themselves, in the end making you feel good that you helped someone out.
COMMON GOOD AND APPLICATION TO PERSONAL LIFE
This service experience was important for the common good because it gives those people that rely on others that helping hand. It is good because you are doing something that you don’t have to do and it benefits others instead of yourself. Not many sacrifices had to be made to ensure dignity because it was already present throughout the YMCA, but I think for me maybe the biggest sacrifice was patience. For me working with the older people who are kind of slower was difficult but I did well and worked with them, even if I had to show them 5 times but that was ok and I understood.
The rules that are put in place to ensure that people are treated with dignity were probably just to be patient. But other than that the YMCA was really just counting on us that we would treat them with respect and show them things 10 times if they needed it. But there were no real rules put up for us to follow. The things that I learned there was defiantly patience, I can’t say it enough, it was at time frustrating but I worked through it. I know getting frustrated with old people doesn’t sound too nice but it does happen when you’re trying to teach them things about computers, and they were good people and before the class started we would go over and hang out with them and talk and some of them were pretty funny. And I can apply this to life with my peers and neighbors because sometimes you run into problems with others and with patience alone you can go a long way, but also with the skill of teaching you can help people learn new things if they aren’t understanding something, and that’s a very important skill.This service experience was important for the common good because it gives those people that rely on others that helping hand. It is good because you are doing something that you don’t have to do and it benefits others instead of yourself. Not many sacrifices had to be made to ensure dignity because it was already present throughout the YMCA, but I think for me maybe the biggest sacrifice was patience. For me working with the older people who are kind of slower was difficult but I did well and worked with them, even if I had to show them 5 times but that was ok and I understood. The rules that are put in place to ensure that people are treated with dignity were probably just to be patient. But other than that the YMCA was really just counting on us that we would treat them with respect and show them things 10 times if they needed it. But there were no real rules put up for us to follow. The things that I learned there was defiantly patience, I can’t say it enough, it was at time frustrating but I worked through it. I know getting frustrated with old people doesn’t sound too nice but it does happen when you’re trying to teach them things about computers, and they were good people and before the class started we would go over and hang out with them and talk and some of them were pretty funny. And I can apply this to life with my peers and neighbors because sometimes you run into problems with others and with patience alone you can go a long way, but also with the skill of teaching you can help people learn new things if they aren’t understanding something, and that’s a very important skill.
The rules that are put in place to ensure that people are treated with dignity were probably just to be patient. But other than that the YMCA was really just counting on us that we would treat them with respect and show them things 10 times if they needed it. But there were no real rules put up for us to follow. The things that I learned there was defiantly patience, I can’t say it enough, it was at time frustrating but I worked through it. I know getting frustrated with old people doesn’t sound too nice but it does happen when you’re trying to teach them things about computers, and they were good people and before the class started we would go over and hang out with them and talk and some of them were pretty funny. And I can apply this to life with my peers and neighbors because sometimes you run into problems with others and with patience alone you can go a long way, but also with the skill of teaching you can help people learn new things if they aren’t understanding something, and that’s a very important skill.This service experience was important for the common good because it gives those people that rely on others that helping hand. It is good because you are doing something that you don’t have to do and it benefits others instead of yourself. Not many sacrifices had to be made to ensure dignity because it was already present throughout the YMCA, but I think for me maybe the biggest sacrifice was patience. For me working with the older people who are kind of slower was difficult but I did well and worked with them, even if I had to show them 5 times but that was ok and I understood. The rules that are put in place to ensure that people are treated with dignity were probably just to be patient. But other than that the YMCA was really just counting on us that we would treat them with respect and show them things 10 times if they needed it. But there were no real rules put up for us to follow. The things that I learned there was defiantly patience, I can’t say it enough, it was at time frustrating but I worked through it. I know getting frustrated with old people doesn’t sound too nice but it does happen when you’re trying to teach them things about computers, and they were good people and before the class started we would go over and hang out with them and talk and some of them were pretty funny. And I can apply this to life with my peers and neighbors because sometimes you run into problems with others and with patience alone you can go a long way, but also with the skill of teaching you can help people learn new things if they aren’t understanding something, and that’s a very important skill.
HUMAN DIGNITY
Human dignity was very present throughout the YMCA. Where I volunteered was with the senior citizens and the young kids. With the senior citizens we were teaching them how to do certain things on the computer for example, learn new programs, use their email, upload pictures to their computer, use facebook and other social networking sites, use Microsoft programs, and a lot more. These people were defiantly treated by who they were and not what they could do because when it came to a computer they knew nothing, but with patience and perseverance we both ended up learning a lot.
As well as the seniors, the kids were treated on who they were versus what they could do. When we did an art project there were kids who couldn’t do it correctly and we treated them like the other kids who could we just came over and helped them out a little and then they got it and had a lot of fun. So throughout all of my volunteering at the YMCA I didn’t once see someone not being treated based on what they could do, not only was that against the views of the YMCA but also being a student of Mount Saint Joseph high school.
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