I volunteer weekly at the Penticton Regional Hospital as a Candy
Striper, as well as raised pledge money for the Relay for Life . These two activities made me connect to Robert Burns'
poem, "To a Mouse", as I have used my time to help others, rather than going to
the mall with friends or going to watch a movie at the theatre. "In proving
foresight may be vain: / The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft
agley," are lines from this poem which mean that even the best laid plans often
go awry, and rings true with my volunteering at the hospital and for Relay for Life. The
patients at the hospital who I visited did not choose to get sick and those who
have gotten cancer did not choose to have this disease, and yet they do! They
may have lived very healthy lifestyles, always eating right and exercising, but
their plans to live long, healthy lives went askew when they found out they had
cancer, or needed surgery, or were sick in some way. I volunteered my time,
when I could've been doing other things, to raise money to help these victims of
cancer or those who have been admitted to the hospital for some illness or the
other.
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