Citizen Commitment: Tank fot Thought

I can admit that I was once not always a good citizen and that I was once ignorant to the idiosyncrasies around me. The most important aspect of being a good citizen, in my view, is that one should maintain a open world view. A good citizen should know and understand how the society around them is functioning and developing; but a great citizen, will understand how the world and all its countries are functioning and developing or not developing. A great citizen will do great things to challenge a falsehood in society and collaborate and act to better the world as a whole. 

It was not until I had entered college and met such a diverse group of people that I soon realized how the world was suffering. Coming from suburbia and going to private school my whole life, I was in a sense blinded from the outside world. I knew about the injustices occurring but I was indifferent to the issues at hand and remained silent. Yet, as I came to college and learned that I could be an active voice against the issues of our society, I began to act and engage in the committees and groups around Columbus that would enable me to change the world we live in for the better. Not everyone was as lucky as I am to live such a wonderful life. Therefore, as a citizen of the world it is up to me to make other’s lives as beautiful and meaningful as my own. So I began to act. Volunteer. Read. Engage. 

This is extremely important. Being a great citizen will bring peace to our world and happiness as well. Therefore, we must being somewhere. So, let’s bring it home. Let’s bring it to our chapters on campus and learn how we can get involved on campus and in the city, in the state and in the nation. Once we partake in being great citizens of our campus we can graduate and emerge into being great citizens of the globe. If you want to reach out to get your chapter to understand this point. Communicate with them. Don’t just tell them to be great citizens with guidelines and expect them to abide by this. You must explain to them what it means to be a citizen and how it is that one becomes a great citizen of the world. You must relate to them personally and engage with them so they can understand your passion for being a great citizen so that they too may be inspired by your passion and love and continue being great citizens in out world. Whether this is through getting good grades, welcoming safe zones, embracing cultures outside their own or educating themselves about social issues and wanting to help illiminate them--we can all help. We can all be citizens, it does not matter the person or time--all it takes is the willingness and determination to do even the smallest acts of kindness.