People enjoy helping people (and animals). People enjoy that warm feeling inside that they get when they help someone who needs it. The thank-yous from an elderly woman, the smile of a child and the tail wag of an excited puppy all make it worth it.
To most Harding students, service is never a laborious, time-consuming duty. It’ something so much better than that. It takes some time out of our busy schedules, sure. But what is time to a family whose house burned down a week ago and is living in a small apartment that doesn’t feel like home at all? What is time to the widower whose yard has grown up to his waist but would rather have a real conversation than his lawn mowed?What is time to an animal when it has been locked in a cage for weeks with sparse attention that is already stretched between the limited staff? Your time is everything.
