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Volunteers for Animals: Keeping the Right Attitude
By Harrison Barnes of http://www.VolunteerCrossing.com
There are many different kinds of volunteer jobs. It all depends on the charity organization you wish to work for. Volunteer jobs for animal shelters can be very rewarding and heart-wrenching at the same time. If you volunteer at an animal shelter, you'll come across a lot of wounded animals. Many of them might be cute little puppies or birds, or they might be baby raccoons without a mother. It's not a typical volunteer job in that respect, but you are still giving your time to help animals recover and find a new home. Most people who volunteer have day jobs and have to work around their career's schedule. This can make it difficult to squeeze in time for volunteering. However, when you work at an animal shelter, it is rewarding to help these harmless and helpless animals back onto their feet and into the wild. You might also develop hatred towards humanity for their cruelty. When you see a dog on the road who has been hit by a car, you realize that there are many people who don't care if they hit animals. If they do so, they might care more about being caught and the guilt that will ensue. However fast they drive to get away from the scene, they can't escape their inner conscience. Some people just don't have a big heart. But those who work at animal shelters feel sorry for these animals and want to do their part to correct the wrong that another human inflicted on it. My friend worked at an animal shelter and would often come home with pictures of the animals, she was helping. She showed me a picture of all these baby raccoons, who had lost their mother. Their mother had been run over on a highway, and they were left motherless to fend for themselves. So the animal shelter took it upon them to nurse the raccoons until they were ready to enter the wild again. Their animal shelter was privately funded by individuals who wanted to help and care for wounded animals. There wasn't any government funding involved. This is generally the case with charity organizations. They make their money through fundraisers and donations. There have been many animal shelter volunteers who become a little too extreme in their cause. This is often the case with people who volunteer. At first they volunteer because they want to help, but then that altruism is converted to anger towards those who don't volunteer, and even more so towards those who might cause the conditions that would merit charity organizations like animal shelters. Some of these people go too far with their anger and lash out at people. They begin to love animals more than people and their actions start to convey these feelings. They no longer care about people-they only care about animals and they'll defend animals every chance they get, even if it means using violence or resorting to crimes to get their message across. There are a lot of protesters, vandals, and other crazy people who have simply taken their volunteering to the extreme. It's no longer about helping for them, it's about hurting those who are hurting their cause. They no longer play the humble role of a simple, unselfish volunteer, but an adversary to the opposition. They feel like warriors fighting a battle against those who ignorantly hurt their cause. If their cause is helping animals, then they suddenly take up arms against industry people who decide to build new factories or oil drilling sites or nuclear power plants. They try to sabotage these operations. This is where it goes too far and these people simply must be stopped. They might have had good intentions when they initially signed up, but even their altruistic intentions can be turned into hatred. And once their actions are motivated by hatred their volunteer work is meaningless and often harmful. Why can't they just remain humble and continue to offer their time and talents unselfishly to support their cause? Why must they find those who they feel are threatening their cause? It's human nature though. There are many volunteers who have the right frame of mind as they go about their volunteer work. They clean up messes and help when they can. They do what they can to help the world be a better place. If they become hateful and spiteful towards others, they become the very scourge, they despise. People are immediately affected by their hatred and they usually respond negatively. Hatred often causes more hatred, and it's a perpetually downward spiral from there. So if you're interested in volunteer work, remember that you can fall into this pit, too if you don't watch yourself. If you're careless with your actions and reason for supporting this cause, you might find yourself on the same side of the fence as all those you despise. So try to stick to your altruistic intentions and it'll come through in your altruistic and helpful actions. |
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