The bright side of volunteering

 
By: Sultana Alshammeri 

Volunteering is a process which reflects goodness of volunteers who work hard and devote their time to serve the community for free, without gaining money. There are different volunteering opportunities and it could be applied everywhere. These activities produce a sense of pride, happiness, responsibility and respect. In addition, it reveals to us those great people who care for helping others and care of the society’s development.
Some people argue that volunteering is a waste of time and we should spend this time on more important issues. They believe that we should have fun with family and friends instead of working without any facilities or any method of payment. On the other hand, the advantages of volunteering are more than the disadvantages and it helps the individual in many ways. For example, it helps the volunteer to discover his/her hidden talents, has a better vision for the world or the field that he/she works in, gains so many skills such as how to communicate effectively with people, improve the volunteer’s personality, become more confident and promote the spirit of cooperation.
In my own experience, I volunteered to work in Academia Newspaper. I became an editor and writer which helped me to improve my writing skills. Finally, the bright side of volunteering is bigger than the disadvantages and it shines the world with cooperation and love among people. We have to raise awareness in our society of the values of volunteering and its positive impact. Adults have high energy and we have to exploit this energy in a good way in order to develop the society, improve the adult’s personality, increase his/her experiences in life and surely this work will help the volunteer in his/her CV in the future.