discovering myself through volenteer work

in the past couple months i have been spending some quality time volenteering at the Snohomish Food Bank. My duties entail serving the general public by handing out quality free food to those in need. I ration out various items such as dog food, flour, sugar, baby food, baby supplies and place them in enclosed container for people who come through the food bank to take home with them. Distrubution of food is a priority of my job title we often handout non parashible items such as boxed pasta, canned meats, canned soup, top ramen, and items like muffins and bottled water. also availible to consumers of the food bank are fresh fruits and vegtables, milk, yougurt, packaaged meat, bread, rice, beans and other items like ice cream and milk. another aspect of my job title is sorting donated foods in our back room into such sections as canned soups, dairy products, pasta, breads and other coding to help simplify the structure and organization for the food bank as well as maintaining item inventory of what is availible to the public and what repeatdly keeps getting donated. however through my experiences volenteering at the food bank i have learned to apprichiate life from a whole other standpoint. i am a struggling college student but i am very motivated and i find the means to live a fairly gifted life. i often dont worry to much about putting food in my mouth or of those i support. i have a large variety of clothing to put on my body everyday. i can enjoy some luxuarys like having my hair done, recieving pedicures here and there and occasionally i get to see a new movie in theater. many of the indiviuals and their families i see come through the food bank visibly don't have some of these gifts. many of the repeating families i see have about three seperate outfits, show no signs of going to the beauty salon considering their hair is typically all naturals and there nails have no color as well as they fact that they can barley bring in enough money to pay for groceries. i have never once been a selfish person but i have stuggled in life and hace figured out ways to get by and i know that there is a saying by whom i am not sure but they clearly state "as life continues on the richer become richer and the poorer become poorer."however i disagree with them you may not one day be dirt poor and the next a billionare, but there are ways to become more fortunate and i wish nothing but sucess to come to the civilians that come through the food bank and their families and i strongly believe that it will.