Helping
Others
By Yasmira Batista
I have a true passion for helping others. I believe that
helping others is very significant because it reminds me
that I am not only making a difference in someone’s
life, but also making a difference in my community. This
passion started as a minor feeling, but it progressed into
a true personal quality when I volunteered for many events
and performed community service, such as volunteering at
a local library. Helping others and volunteering became
a part of who I am as a person and makes me proud for offering
a helping hand.
I love how I am making a difference in someone’s life
by doing the smallest and simplest thing, such as escorting
a person to a room, picking up money from the ground and
giving it to the person who dropped it, or even helping
a homeless person on a street by offering food, money or
some advice.
My passion increasingly developed when I saw an infomercial
about children in a poor European country having a contagious,
fatal disease because of their living conditions being unsanitary,
malnutrition, and poverty. I actually cried when I saw that
infomercial and told my mother if I can donate twenty dollars
to the sponsors of the infomercial in order to help those
children. She first thought that I was just kidding but
she told me that she could tell that I was being serious
about helping those children and can see the desire in my
eyes. My mother donated twenty dollars to the sponsors and
I was so happy because I know the money donated will help
those children.
At that moment, I decided that I wanted to become a pediatrician,
because I wanted to be able to help children that are in
need. It became the most important thing to me, thus making
it my number-one priority. As a tenth-grader, I tutored
middle school and high school students that had difficulty
in Algebra. A sixth-grade student even told me that I was
so helpful and because of my help, he got an A in his math
class. At that moment, I was surprised because I realized
that helping a person could make a huge impact in that person’s
life. I am currently a volunteer at Pasadena’s Huntington
Memorial Hospital. I love volunteering there so much because
the patients that I help are always thankful and appreciative
of the help that I offer. Seeing a happy face on a patient
that I assist always makes me feel proud for what I accomplished
and reminds me that I can make a huge difference and impact
in many more lives when I become a pediatrician.
I feel that being a pediatrician is very significant to
me because I believe that children are our future and they
do not deserve to have their lives taken away when they
are barely experiencing life itself. Now, volunteering and
helping others is not only what I am passionate about, but
also a part of who I am.
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