Be the Change!

“Be the change you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi

I recently stumbled upon a website called SF Connect that I feel will help me quite a bit in my newly solidified life goal of “being the change” here in San Francisco.

“The mission of SF Connect is to mobilize residents and sectors for a stronger San Francisco. SF Connect is about engaged residents volunteering their talent and time for the City as well as innovative partnerships between the private, public and social (nonprofit) sectors.”

There are four “sectors” or areas of SF Connect a person can volunteer and be a part of; Project Homeless Connect, Project Green Connect, Project Youth and Families Connect, and Project Tech Connect. I am interested in both Project Green Connect and Project Homeless Connect, those just happen to be two things that I was interested in before I chanced upon this helpful website. I signed up last week for a clean up that’s going to be happening this coming Saturday morning and I’m super excited about it! I not only get to do something to help my beautiful city and the planet, I get to work on my social skills, meet other caring San Franciscans and have good time.

If you’re interested in doing something in your community, I strongly suggest just jumping into it! Sitting around waiting for the perfect time to come along is time wasted. I’ve volunteered for outdoorsy things before, and it’s such and awesome feeling knowing you’re actively participating in making things better versus just thinking you should be doing something and that you’ll “get around to it when you have the time is right.” The only way change will occur and things will get better (with the environment, the economy, relations between people, your personal self, and everything) is if people actively change their mindset and try to better themselves and the world around them. Small steps now, will lead to bigger steps down the line. We have to work together, and we have to do it now. Lets all be the change!

photograph taken by Dbking and used under creative commons.