I was blessed with the opportunity to exercise selflessness two summers ago, when my aunt asked me if I wanted to volunteer at her workplace over the summer. I didn’t want to go- going off without my family was intimidating- but I said yes, and when summer came, packed up and headed off to Charlottesville. My week there was a learning experience. I spent a whole work week as a helper to my aunt in the convalescent center rehab. The work was not hard, but I began to understand what it was like being independent and away from my family. I had to do things. It was that week that I realized how dependent I was on my parents. But without them there, I found out how I could help my aunt and the rehab patients, and because I was given every day there a chance to be selfless, I was given a new outlook on my abilities; and have been there every summer since.
