[Community-service] Is the call to serve for the sighted, the need to serve for the blind?

[Greg Aikens]

Do we serve because we need to prove to ourselves that we are not helpless? Do we sometimes serve out of a sense of sincere gratitude for all those who have helped us in the past and a desire to recreate that for another? Or can it be out of a sense of guilt over how much help we have received from others? Do we serve to strike out against the idea that it is we who are in need of charity? 

Thought provoking questions Darian. Thanks. 

Greg
On Jan 10, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Darian Smith wrote:

> Hi all,
>  So I was  thinking about something...
> Many times we hear that a person is "called" to serve their
> community, country, etc.  I wonder if you think that  that call
> becomes more of a "need" for the blind person who wishes to serve? Is
> it something we do to change perceptions? is it something we do to
> kill time? is it  neither? is it both? and does blindness ever play a
> factor into the dicision?
> 
> Interested to hear  your thoughts?
>   Darian
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