Reasons to Give Back

Many things can bloom out of giving back. You don’t just get the warm fuzzy feeling of doing something good, you can get so much more.

Friendships can be made. You can meet others who feel good giving back. They may even give you reasons to give more often than you already do, to further your friendship.

Giving back can motivate you to try new things. Such as a charity soccer game, or planting and taking care of a garden.

You can make an impact. It’s crazy to think that you as a singular person can make an impact, but you can.

You can control what you’re doing. Many times we, as humans, feel like our lives are out of control. We struggle for some sort of control, and volunteering is perfect for that.

It can inspire you, especially if you’re volunteering with a cause you’re truly passionate about. Not only that, but it can strengthen your community as well.

Providing strength to the community can lead it to get safer. Thus becoming of higher quality for all those who live there.

Volunteering can help improve your health and happiness. Volunteering is not only good for the people you help, but you as well. You can get physically healthier simply by volunteering your time to a helpful cause. Not only that, but it can also help you learn to be a leader.

Volunteering will push you to get out there, thus boosting your confidence. You can shape the world around you with just leadership alone. With that leadership you can teach others about your cause. Broadening the amount of people who help out.

You can improve your ability to do jobs that you already know. That in particular looks great on resumes and college applications. Not only that, it helps you decide what kind of jobs you want to send that newly improved resume to.

You can widen your surroundings. You can find your dream job, travel, or even just meet a close friend simply out of doing volunteer work big or small.

Volunteering can help improve your self-esteem. Helping other can release endorphins into your body, causing increased happiness which makes you feel better about yourself. Not only that, but volunteering can also help with your stress levels. You also are teaching others, with your actions, to be caring.

Volunteering gives you a voice, which can be heard. That’s something that not everybody on this planet has. That voice you can use to get out the word on what you care about.

There’s more strength in numbers. So while you may feel like you are just one, you are contributing to many.

You can pay back others who have helped you, such as veterans and their families. Think about the excitement you get when you give a friend a gift, it increases even more when you help someone in need.

It makes you look good. Now I hope that nobody uses this reason alone, but it is true, people admire those who give more than they receive.

Now go clean up a park, visit patients at the hospital, help out a local elementary school. No matter what the reason, volunteer.