Egg Hunt Reflection

This past semester, I worked with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of South Niagara over the Easter weekend for their annual Easter Egg Hunt. This is a charitable event that raises funds for the organization with the help of the City of Welland as well as the Welland firefighters, both volunteer and paid. Also, with the aid of many, many volunteers, the event almost always runs as planned. I have helped at this event for the past two years with friends. Both years, my friends and I have painted faces for a certain number of “tickets” that people can purchase, with all proceeds going to Big Brothers/Big Sisters. This year, my friend and I’s duty was to sit at an assigned table, take the tickets, and paint what the child chose from a sheet of pre-selected designs upon their faces. We also helped with the setup of the event itself, putting up tables and various signs and other things. This experience has been especially significant because I got to see the different ways that parents interact with their children, and vice versa. I …show more content…
As a highly intuitive and pensive person, I am quite sure I can recognize these signs and the danger of narcissism earlier than most of my generation, and thus I believe that through my perception of these signs I have noticed many of these symptoms in people close to me and people that I have longtime friendships with, as well as within myself. Although the experience at hand was quite awful and painstaking, I think that in the end, it was worth it to witness the epidemic of true narcissism this era has at hand and to think deeply about it and recognize the warning signs in others and myself even faster. Through this experience, I have been able to see these traits in myself at times, and through this experience, have the knowledge and skillset to attempt to contravene them before hurting myself or