Lunch

Today I ate lunch with five university volunteers at our aviation museum’s fundraiser.  I was so impressed with these students.  They ranged from freshmen to senior and from Marketing major, to Early Childhood.

If I were to meet these people under different circumstances I would probably have thought they had nothing in common, but it turned out that would not have been true.

Beginning with a desire to help out in the community.  Each one of them showed up eager and willing to work at whatever we needed them to do and jumped in with lots of enthusiasm that quickly built into a quirky, wonderful relationship with the people they were helping.

None of them were big television fans.  Three of the five grew up in households that had one TV!  None of them had a television in their room growing up, nor did they intend for their children to have one in theirs.

All of them felt it was important to be involved in and willing to volunteer in today’s world.  I got the feeling that they thought their professions were for them and volunteering was for their community and both were a necessary part of making this world a good place for everyone.

I enjoyed my whole day, but I have to say, lunch was the highlight.