Live to serve

      Starting from this semester, variety of projects and workshops we are doing and trying to do help us to construct a sense of serving the society and people in the world. Previously, i thought that helping others starts from the attitude regardless of the method and influence. Generally, the method of contribution really plays an important role in utilizing the power of influencing the public.
       Leadership is not limited in its definition and should not be imposed on some body's mind. It should be inspired from one's heart sincerely without force and unwillingness. We should be able to spill that spirit over into every area of life. Recently, my classmates infused great passion and persistence in promoting their LEAP project. Hot choloate, cantonese workshop, CV workshop, write your wishes. We can feel the smile and warmth expressed from staffs and students working and studying in this cold winter. Compared to their ideas, our group's LEAP projet seems to process more secretly instead of calling the attention from the campus. We did go to the Library everyweek to help the librarian put those books to their proper place on the shelf. We also indeed went the Eskimo to help the waitress to clean the table to decrease their workload. Although we really have a good time in working with our group members, others are not aware of that and these secretly contributions are not able to influence others to follow our steps. It is quite ineffective to contribute only through the minority group. From my point of view, the function of leader is to build and construct a relationship web in the society which connect and gather the rest of the society together to achieve the same goal that would benefit each other. It is such a pity that our group fails to build such connections among students.
    As a consequence, we shift our focus of our project. "Sweet Postman" will start from this week. In this cold winter, to express our love and apprectiation to those people we are grateful. We want to play the role of the sweet postmand deliver your best wishes to the people you want to thank for. Students may want to say thank you to their professor but lack channel to express their love. Faculty fellows may even also want to say thank you to their colleagues but lack of time to do so. Do you still remember the thank you note activity in Dr. Udani's Class? It is really a brilliant day when I received so many thank you notes from my friends. You could never image even a subtle behavior or action can leave a warm message in other people's heart. This is the way to cultivate a kind, caring and loving heart. 
     Hope our next week's LEAP project could be a successful one!