Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a National Day of Service, is tomorrow. It’s a call to action to volunteer and get involved. Yadda Yadda.
Look, I hate working for free, I’m just getting over a cold, and I have other stuff I’d rather be doing. But even so, I’m going to get out there and so should you!
Yeah, right.
Look, I just donated some clothes and an old fan to a nearby Goodwill. You know why that counts? Because it’s something. Sure it’s easy and thoughtless, but who gives a shit, it’s still going toward the greater good and then I had the rest of the day to myself.
So, even if you don’t have time to work the line at a soup kitchen or paint a house (or, for those of you who are honest with yourselves, don’t really care to), just get rid of some of your crap at your local Goodwill or a Salvation Army. Because then you’re doing something and it makes you seem charitable and socially conscious when you brag about it afterward. And chicks dig that crap. And who doesn’t love chicks? Wait, where did all my female followers go?
Anyway, on a decidedly more serious note, I feel it is important to do something this year in the wake of the attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords life. Besides the obvious and tragic parallel, Service Days are opportunities for us to put our best qualities as Americans on display and I just think that’s what’s needed right now. It’s what I needed, anyway.
So volunteer, donate, just do something.
