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  • Essay / How Community Service Changed My Future - 624

    "We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are put here for each other. If you are always here for others, then in If you need it, someone will be there for you." - Jeff Warner I am the fourth child of my seven siblings, the middle child. Growing up, I picked on my older brother like my younger ones do now, but I never really understood how lucky I was to grow up in such a big family. My older sisters were my role models and still are. I see what they experience as adults in this world and I decide if that's the path I want to take or not. I'm also a big sister to three younger siblings, and while I didn't see that they look up to me until recently, I know they do and I try hard not to commit lots of mistakes they could track. Looking at someone and admiring it doesn't always mean that you want to be like them, but that you observe their actions and make a mental note of them, as if it were a manual on what to do and what not to do. Never in a million years would I have thought I would touch anyone's life outside of my family, but my senior's last semester ...