My Feelings On Community Service (4)

This last Friday Some other students of PSEC and I went to the house of a man and a woman. IO cannot say their names because: 1, I'm not allowed to, and 2, I forgot anyways. This house was in need of some clean up, which we were to do. I helped clean roofs, chimneys, and gardens, while my other PSEC-ians did other chores around the house. While doing said chores, I noticed the guy walking around constantly while telling us little things we should also be looking for. Now, I had originally thought that both the man and wife (who actually wasn't there) had disabilities that prohibited them from taking care of the house, but it seemed as though only the wife had such problems (which was why she wasn't there), where as the husband seemed a-OK. Now I am aware that some problems aren't as visible as others, but half the time he actually refereed to him doing the job in the past as an example for me to follow while doing the chores, which led me to believe he could actually have done them all himself. Instead of leaving the scene after almost 2 hours or so of work with a warm, fuzzy feeling that you get from helping those with problems, I left with the feeling of emptiness and slight wonder as to why the man didn't do the chores around the house himself. I'm not trying to be offensive to the guy, but he didn't seem to have any physical or mental problems that stopped him from doing the chores. Anyways, it wasn't too bad, I got a bit dirty, and almost fell through the roof a couple times, but it wasn't a horrible experience. In fact, I've never been in an area like his before. I am actually a very sheltered child, an example is I got cable TV when I was 11, and my first video game (not including those crappy learning ones) when I was 10. I learned my first cuss word in middle school, and my first public school was actually in ninth grade. So the whole impoverished situation was new to me. So that is what I felt over-all for the whole community service project on Friday.

This post was not meant to offend anyone, but if you were offended, comment of the post, and i might reply with an answer. Maybe.