Personal Narrative: Make-A-Wish

Since the beginning of my freshman year I have been actively a part of a club known as Make-A-Wish; which strives to grant the wishes of terminally ill children with life threatening diseases. This club offered me not only a chance to fit into a new school, but also do what I love and do best, help people. I not only learned the purpose of helping others, but I also learned a lot about myself. Through determination, hope, and hard work I have pushed through the problems to bring back the reason for this club; making a difference. Due to being completely oblivious to anything my freshman year, I was hoping to get the hang of how this club worked by differentiating people from others, and understanding what the point of this club really was. For starters, I struggled to get along with the officers, especially the president; no one wanted to hear the youngest persons ideas …show more content…
Finally, after being appointed to our new positions the wish kids spoke to us about their dreams coming true. I will never forget about the time one kid told us how amazing it was to finally travel when he’s never been on a plane or how one girl got to spend the entire day with her favorite Disney princesses. She was especially inspiring, she was connected to so many machines and monitors and she had the brightest smile in the room, and I would make sure that this is how Make-A-Wish would be remembered. After hearing that girls story, I wanted the members to understand why we raise money, to know what it feels like to make a sick kid smile. I wanted to teach them that its not always about ourselves, that with a little work and dedication we could one more child experience their dream. I no longer wanted to hear, ‘it looks good on college applications’ or ‘we get community service hours from it’ not even ‘its like another