Lay Your Hands on Community Service

By Nor Hidayati Mokhtar

When our First Lady, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor urged Higher Education Institutions to make it compulsory for all students to have at least joined community service, it made me wonder that there is nothing new about it.

To get involved in community service does not mean you must go to the extra mile like helping orphans to clean up the homes, cheering up old folks, surviving the nature, or summing ups money for donation. Well, it is great if it happens but actually it is so easy to do community service. Even a simple act of giving your seats to the one more deserved in KTM is an example.

Thus, it starts from us, the hearty hearts. It's never too hard to do it and yet, it's never too late to go for it. Community service is seen like a boring thing to do, but for us students, there are so many advantages we can obtain and later apply it on our daily lives.

When we have the hearty hearts, we will sense the need of helping our surroundings, not even having them to request. And good deeds will always be worthy. When we have the hearty hearts, we would always respect the elders because we will put ourselves in their shoes. And when we have the hearty hearts, we would always cherish ourselves to be luckier than so many people out there.

And to have those hearts, we can start with a community service. Apart from only acquiring teamwork skills, building up the self-confidence and learn to respect others, community service can also stimulate our emotional intelligence for the better us.

So we have flooded activities in this varsity and outside, we could always join the NGO. the Soliditary Mahasiswa Malaysia, Majlis Belia Malaysia, Rakan Muda, GPMS blah2..... Be alert and always feel free to join. Throw away the nasty feelings about the agenda of it. Be it a propaganda, wasting time or becoming 'poyo' to join, peel the goodness out of the activities. And I guarantee, the satisfaction you would get is priceless. =

Let's get ourselves involved soon in community service. This could be the best last solution to have a more tolerate, respecting each other, have the sensitivity upon others' needs and to instill more love in the community!

P.S : When was the last time you saw a young person (guy or girl) gave a seat in the public transportation for the elder ones? Me? Ah.... Cannot remember.