Volunteering for your cause

I may be still limited in the types of volunteer work people may find themself committed in; let's see, Children, Young people, 'Strayed' people, Old people, Dying people (chants and last wishes), animals, environment, what else? Of course within those sets are many more subsets that can really be quite unimaginable.

On a sideline, India has the highest number of NGO/NPO in the world, not sure whether it is in absolute of per capita terms, but it's amazing. Ask a normal guy on the street who they admire, at least 7 will say Gandhi. The question itself isincredible. Can you imagine yourself being asked on the street by a stranger: who doyou admire? Huh? What for I admire anyone, is the correct answer God/Jesus/ Prophet Muhammad/Buddha?? Oh no. No one thinks of such questions isn't it? My YEP team mate was asked by a 12 year old girl in the village of Hollavanahalli in Kotaragare in Bangalore, India. Wth...
If you have not read the implication, it is your beliefs and values.

So, we know that we find ourselves sometimes more concerned for children, animals, elderly, but besides just noting the number of occurrence in being concerned, how do we know if that is really the 'field' that we would be interested in? The proposition that I would like to put across is that your experiences could be a factor. Freudian``... I do think there's a connection. Anyway, the irony is, you most likely won't know if your cause is really for you if you have not given time for it.

Yet for most 'first-time' ('' because every volunteer should relive the mentality of a first-time once in a while) volunteers, the cause might not be so important; the company is. So the cause now becomes your friend! Interesting and not so nobly noble now, is it?.. Hey hey, but that's a good cause, and an important one, too!

padfoot remarked that I inspired him in the previous comment; fact is, he inspires me, too! That's how it is, your cause for volunteering is not too far away.