My Desire To Help People

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For as long as I can remember, I always had this desire to help people. Whether it was helping out my little sister with her homework, or helping out my mom in the kitchen for Thanksgiving dinner, or simply just helping out my teachers pass out papers, I always found joy in just that.

Growing up, my mom showed me that kindness was the best gift you could give to anyone. The older I got the more I started to value kindness. You see, when you do a simple action as give a smile to a random stranger, you make that person feel acknowledged. Throughout my life I have always tried to find ways to put a smile on someone 's face. From giving compliments, to opening the door for someone else, to feeding the homeless, not only have
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Being raised Christian, I was taught to be kind and love people the way Jesus loved us no matter who we are or what we 've done. As a Christian, our duty on this earth is to spread love and I feel like the way I can do that is by being a nurse. Nurses have a heart and desire to help people in all sorts of conditions. Nurses are so passionate about what they do and I look up to them. Volunteering at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, I 've seen how nurses have special connections and relationships with their patients and it makes me want to have those special connections with people that I will hopefully someday help in the future. Just recently, they had an event called the NICU Reunion which was for babies that were in the natal intensive care unit (NICU) and I had the pleasure of volunteering at this event. My duty as a volunteer was to check in the families that had RSVP to the event and take pictures of them as well. As I was doing my job and observing everyone, I saw how happy the families were to be back there and see the doctors and nurses that had helped their baby or babies get healthy. Some nurses that worked in the NICU department dressed up in costumes and they were playing games and doing arts and crafts with the children that were in the NICU and I saw how they loved what they do and they loved putting smiles on their faces and it made me realize what career path I want to take which is to be a nurse for NICU or

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