***Insight*** Service and Work

This kinda feels like Deja Vu but I have strong feelings on this so I will will write...

I have grown so much much through these two things. There is so much I could write about with both of them, but in order to keep my thoughts straight and to keep making sense I'll start off with writing about the first.

Service humbles you. Bottom line. Each time you go out of your way to better anothers life you get a little wider, clearer view of the world. You find yourself thankful for the blessings you have recieved. You learn dedication, hardwork, social skills, and most important of all you grow closer to your fellow man. Of course, such benefits can be overlooked if you look at service in a negative light. If so, service can actually harm rather than help. However, if you do manage to find the silverlining in your work, it is you who reaps more benefits then those that you help. By working with people to ease their pain, whether emotional or physical, it can unlock the secrets you have sought for in yourself. I say: "The only way to truly see yourself is to look through anothers eyes." This is one of the greatest boons of service. Service is a very special thing. It's like love really...heck it is love! It benefits both people and it's a bond that draws them both closer together. Wouldn't you say that is what love is?

One of the truths that I have discovered is this: "Anything worth having, takes works; one can gain nothing without giving up something else of equal value."
This is the principle behind work. Work is very similar to service in that it can help you grow, or it can break you down, depending on your outlook. Work teaches Diligence, endurance, focus, and even faith. Some believe that one does not have to work to achieve ones goals. They call this "talent" they say "some have it and some don't". In their eyes, if you are not good at something or cannot achieve something the first time around, you can never do so.
The fraud in this statement is clearly evident. Albert Einstein, was the slowest child in his classes. He did not speak until age 4. Everyone considered him stupid. However, he believed in the (and these are what I like to call them) "Laws of Work and Equal Exchange" and one of his famous is quotes is this " It's not necessarily that I am 'smarter' than anyone else, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Many other examples are these: Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, Thomas Edison ( it took him over over one thousand tries to come up witht he lightbulb), Steven Hawking (he is crippled by Polio and yet he did not let that stop him from becoming what many say "the most brilliant man since Einstein") Galileo and Copernicus (Imprisoned many times by the Catholic Church for their research, and yet their knowledge has become the basis of our knowledge today). The beauty behind the "Laws of Work and Equal Exchange" is this; "if you desire it and if you seek it, you shall find it."

Through Service learn to grow from others and through work learn to grow from diligence. And through these things, knowledge shall come to you like dissipation of clouds at sunrise.