Saturday, August 8, 2009
How 5 minutes of your life make the difference to others
Hello again everyone! I decided to make a post about one of the 5 ways to "heal the world": volunteering. Today when I woke up I just thought "oh no, not again, just 5 more minutes". But I had to get up. I volunteer every saturday and every other tuesday at an animal shelter where many cats and dogs can find a home. Our job is to make sure they have food, water, clean beds and some human company to play with. Everyone that volunteers there must have a huge heart in order to give animals what they need. I am with the cats. To me, they mean the world. Of course I get to play with the dogs a little too. Cleaning the beds, giving food and playing with like 100 cats at the same time is not easy, I must tell you! But the happiness...oh my God...the happiness in their eyes is just what counts. What if I had stayed those 5 more minutes in bed? It would be 5 minutes without making others happy! 5 more minutes not giving them a safe home. 5 more minutes not giving them love. To be completly honest, volunteering isn't easy. At the shelter I work 3 hours non-stop. It is hard, but let me tell you, there is no happier moment in your life than seeing sparkling eyes of the ones you help. So, just use those 5 minutes when you have nothing to do and go put a smile on someone else's face and at the end of the day your heart will happily say "I made the difference."
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this is something i would LOVE to do.
ReplyDeleteeven if you can't or don't have time to volunteer in an animal shelter, you can still visit an animal shelter near where you live and ask them if they need something. you can probably help them by donating toys, balls, blankets, carriers, dog/cat food, collars... think about it if you had a pet in the past and kept some things in a closet somewhere.
they may also need things like floorclothes, scrapers, bleach... to clean the boxes.
you can also donate some money and maybe you can even sponsor a cat or dog of your choice, by donating a few dollars a month, to help them take care of the animal, and they'll give you news about your sponsored animal every month.
this is a great way to help them, it doesn't take much of your time, but it's very important for these animal shelters, these little donations really make a big difference for them.