Service is the manifestation of right thinking.
Whatever you do to the poorest person you did also to Me. Happiness
is reverberated when we start caring for our immediate environment.
Lately I have been organizing forums and attending youth events, it
is now that I realized that I have done nothing for my environment.
If you want to serve mankind try planting a tree.
A Director of IPB in UPLB used to tell us that a person is fulfilled
if he has "bore a child, planted a tree or have written a book." I
believe that I must not only inspire other people to make a
difference in their life, but I should be that DIFFERENCE I want to
see in the WORLD. It should start from within me. Realizing this, I
will make it a life long commitment too plant trees. Think of all the
creatures that will benefit from a single tree planted. I will start
doing something that will benefit my immediate environment, hoping
that I could inspire them to do the same in their respective circles.
We only have to focus on One Vision. If we listen closely in our
heart, we will be aware of that One Vision.
Different animals have different HEARTS but what matters more is
when we started caring for them as a true FAMILY. I realize that one
should be in unison as one big family. We see people having the same
Vision, having the same heart but they quarel over personality, over
their own individual beliefs. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "If you want
to be a friend, be a friend" If we really want to serve others we
have to show that we are a family to them, no more publicity, no more
pay just plain service. Our parents, when they feed us they are not
expecting to be paid. This is why it is important to treat others as
a Family and look at the world as one big Household.
There are four kinds of people who serves, this includes those who
are:
Serving with pay. These are our politicians. These are businessmen.
These are those people who are telling the public to elect them so
that they maybe able to serve. They are frauds. This is because if
they really want to serve they will just serve. They don't need any
mandate from the people. They are ususally there just for the money.
Some of them refuse to take home their slary and instead donate these
to their scholars but this is just a mere amount of what
they "normally" will receive from their "other" transactions. I
remember of a popular Senator who was just there to exoand his
business connections by heading committees in the government. Its
saddening that there are still some Senators who are just there to
play with politics instead of serving the people. Some businessmen
promote service to others, but in reality is just using the cause as
a marketing tool in order to expand their market to advocacy
orriented individuals. I am happy whenever a company does some
projects that is not, in any way, related to their marketing
strategy. The more will I admire a company if it focuses more on the
Project to be accomplished rather than the name of his own company.
Serving with publicity. These includes stars. Some agencies spends
more on publicity rather than the actual help that will go to a
particular cause. Some just have their pictures taken while
apparently "serving" their community in order to increase their
credentials so that more people will recognize them. There are some
stars who instead of serving the people, have disempowered them when
they have infused the dream of their Director to the minds of these
individuals. Instead of allowing the people to remember their purpose
in life, some acted as if they are the only PURPOSE that others must
continue to admire and follow. This, to the point that others will
forget to even serve themselves because they are so enamored with
the idea of meeting a star.
Serving without pay nor publicity. These includes our parents. This
includes our FAMILY. If only we will serve other people and care for
them as if they are our children or our siblings, then we will have
harmony inthis world we live in.