Personal Narrative: My Volunteering Experience With The Race For The Cure

Most of the time, I believe that donating time towards an organization or a cause is often better than donating money or resources. Through volunteering, you are able to fully experience what that organization is doing and form a strong connection with the cause that is being fought for. For me in a previous volunteering experience I had with the Race for the Cure, I was able to understand fully the cause, the fight against breast cancer, which the race participants were partaking in.

Breast cancer is something that has not really affected me over the course of my life; I had never been diagnosed with it nor had any family members that were victims. I understood that breast cancer was something that should be fought against and a cure should be found, but I did not have a personal connection with the disease itself. However, during a

volunteering experience working on controlling the flow of the race participants, I was able to see that there were people from every stripe of life that was effected by breast cancer. Young and old, black and white, man and women, there were many that had some sort of connection with breast cancer, whether they fought it themselves, or were friends and family of those effected.
With this volunteering experience, I grew a greater understanding about how breast cancer effects many different people throughout the country and the world.

Even though that I still do not have any personal connection to breast cancer, I am able to see how personal it could be, being the greatest takeaway from my time volunteering for the Race for the Cure.

One of my favorite quotes comes from the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” Those quote, to me, means that people do not remember the mundane events in life that occur daily, but the moments, whether big or small, that happen. The moments that we do remember, whether big or small, positive or negative, affect and shape our lives, making us to be the people that we are.

This is my favorite quote because it helps to guide us into making sure that we do not try to focus on the mundane but focus on the specific moments in life that people should be focusing on. Also, I personally like this quote because, to me, it shows that we should not try to make moments happen, but we should let them happen, as it would be more

memorable.

If there was any country that I could visit, it would definitely be New Zealand, due to curiosity and wonder that I have always had with the island nation. Back in the third grade, we had to do presentations on different countries of the world, and the nation that was chosen for me was New Zealand. As I did research about the Oceanic nation, I discovered that New Zealand was a pretty awesome place, especially when it comes to the climate, the scenery, and the overall meshing of cultures in the nation, especially between the Maoris and immigrants.
Over the past decade since, I have done more research on the nation, going even more in depth, and agreed that New Zealand would be not only a place that I would want to visit someday, but even possibly live in should I get the chance.