I like to volunteer to help people. In my youth group at church I spent many hours at a local senior citizens home. We always spent one on one time with the people that had not had very many visitors; usually these were with advanced dementia, ones that had forgotten their family’s names. And just one hour playing cards or listening to music or just walking around the grounds outside gave them so much to break up the monotony and did not take too much out of your day but makes them and you feel so much better.
I was also the friend that everyone called with their problems. My mother often referred to me as Dr. Ruth. I was never an indecisive child, I always knew what I wanted, and when people called I got such a rush from helping them. I loved to hear their problems, store their secrets, and help figure out solutions to tough questions.
I was also a born mother. You know the type the one that was born organizing, telling people what to do, and arranging things to make everyone comfortable. I knew from a young age I was meant to help and take care of people that is just my MO.
So something that has been sitting on my Rogue Life List forever is to join the Big Brother Big Sister Organization. With so many types of volunteering you make a small difference in a bunch of peoples lives, but by becoming a Big Sister I get matched with one little girl that I could potentially over years help become a better woman. I hadn’t joined yet because I really wanted to make a long term commitment and since I seemed, up until this point, to be a gypsy moving more often then I would like to admit. So since I bought a house, I am getting married, I have a stable job, and I lost my brother and have a hole that I am desperately trying to fill, most of the requirements that I felt I needed to be a stable influence are now filled. And today after many years I have finally completed the online application to begin the process to joining the program and finding my little sister. I cannot wait to help.
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