After going through the few months of service learning with the elderly, I have learnt how to appreciate what we have. I have also realised that life is short and we should take care and appreciate our grandparents and the elderly, before they pass away. By the time we learn to appreciate the elderly, it might already be too late.
Throughout the service learning process, the best experience that I had was the fact that we brought joy and some liveliness to the eldeerly home. The part that really touched my heart was to see the wide smiles and laughter that the elderly experienced during our visit. The worst part was probably the fact that some of the elderly did not really enjoy the activities that we set for them and that some of them were restless, despite our performance and activities.
I learnt it is a really sad thing to be sent to the old folk's home. We could see the sad faces on them. I learnt that we should never ever sent our grandparents or parents to the home. They raised us up so painstakingly, we should not take it for granted and 'repay' them like that.
I will try to do community work whenever I can. There are many other more unfortunate people in the world, I will want to do something for them.
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