How Should Humans Live?

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“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get”- Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Human life is incredible and wonderful gift from God. It is something that creates day after day with people’s action and thoughts. Every day is a new experiences, new adventure, and ability to learn new things and to move forward. Our lives come with a great responsibility toward this planet also. The human being have their own freedom; to do whatever they want to do, but there are two kinds of human being in the world: one who dedicate their lives for another; who accept everyone with open arms, who want to see improvement in the world and others who don’t care what's going on around them or in the world. Human life comes with a great responsibility toward the world. There is an affluence of beauty and good in the world, but it still has luxuries amount of problems. People should take action in the world and help everyone from the homeless to the disabled people. There are individuals who want to fix the world, but taking on the whole world as a project can certainly seem overwhelming, so taking smaller steps at a time might help.
In this world, only a few will have enough power to do big things just like Mother Teresa, but very few individuals believe that they can change the world by volunteering. It is an “experience for the community and the volunteer”. The biggest reason why people volunteer is because they want to do something good for other people. There are children who don’t get food every day; there are people who are sick and much more. As a volunteer, human beings get a chance to “support families, improve schools, support youth and beautify the community”. Children are the future of this world, so why...

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