Band Leaders, Diehard and Core Fixers.

When you Volunteer...

Good morning! One of the most talked about topics in the universe right now is the concept of volunteering! Given it's importance and growing relevance, you can't afford to miss the global discussions centered around it. The discussions are so profound many feel compelled to join the band, some for good reasons and some for extremely personal reasons! Very personal lol.

Volunteering is service to humanity, an activity that encourages you to put others especially the vulnerable before you. The beauty of volunteering is that it is always a win-win situation! Everyone
gets better at the end of the activity! Whether you like it or not! It just happens! It's a consequence of volunteering! You improve the community or target audience and you improve yourself in more ways than you know (you will notice the improvement over time).

However, with the constant and increasing discussion, comes this pressure that doesn't exist. The pressure is so artificial, it affects just a particular group: The group which doesn't understand it. I will discuss in detail, the different types of volunteers with relation to the Artificial Pressure.

THE ARTIFICIAL PRESSURE.

The artificial pressure is that push, the unnecessary fear or propellant that makes you feel the "dire" need to volunteer for all the wrong reasons.

You have looked at people's profiles on social media and the ones with the good jobs or seem really cool are the ones who have once volunteered or work with charity. This has certain effects on you and puts you under an artificial pressure, you are likely to be one of these;

Volunteering is the New Cool: "The Band Leaders"

These set of people are naturally propelled to be affiliated to the cool stuff. They are the first to do anything that is beginning to look cool, they are the pace setters for the cool stuff. Given the growing importance of volunteering and the comments you see on pictures of volunteers or related agencies, you feel the need to be a part of it as the volunteers are the ones that look good now! Everyone seems to be praising them. You join in so that people can call you humble or warm hearted. You are quick to take a picture at the service venue, while at your service point, your priorities include a good picture preferably by the lowliest side of the service venue, the post to accompany the pictures and a prediction of the number of likes you may get on that post. You do not have bad intentions, you just need to keep your cool game 100!. After getting your pictures, you get too tired or irritated to do the main job because you find out that you are there for all the wrong reasons then you get exasperated
and your actions have adverse effects on your service areas.




Volunteering is the new path: "the Diehard "

These volunteers want to work in the multinational organizations, speak at world class conferences
and need the good jobs or worst off want to attend free international programs at all costs. These
organizations ask for the charitable work that you have done as part of the considerations for the role. They have good intentions, but the diehard misses the point. To the diehard, volunteering is the

stepping stone, so he is a part of so many charity programs, owns an organization (maybe), takes the most pictures and updates his cv and social media profile every now and then to reflect the charity for the week. He will get tired along the way and will begin to renege on commitments made. He has merely taken up space and has deprived the well meaning people of their chance to get the job done.


Volunteering is the only way: "the core fixers ". 

These volunteers believe that volunteering is the only way to save the world. The world needs fixing and all hands must be on deck. They embark on a project with a lot of ideas, goals and expected results. They try so hard but feel disappointed when all the objectives are not met. They feel like they have done nothing and may be reluctant to volunteer again because they believe that volunteering really can't achieve much. The mistake with this is that, as an individual, there is so much so can do, but the consistency in your efforts and collaboration with others through actions would bring the desired result. The global issues threatening our existence can be achieved through joint efforts and that's why everyone is encouraged to volunteer in order to put the bits every one has to make the perfect whole. Your efforts are always material, don't feel bad when you can not see the results now,
often times, the manifestations visible are on the long run.

Volunteering is a beautiful and laudable thing to do but you must engage in it for the right reasons in order to achieve the right results. True service, love for humanity and the obligation to make the world a better place should propel you. Not the ensuing fame or benefits you gain from exploiting the status of the vulnerable. Truth is, everything good will come if you do the right thing. Volunteering is always a win win situation, the volunteer and the service area would ALWAYS get better if we do the right things.
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