In Cuba the government for many years has made extra efforts in making Cubans attend to “volunteer jobs”. For a better understanding what happens is that we are assigned certain jobs and told that it is voluntary, but if you do not attend you can get in serious trouble in your job or school. This form of “volunteer” practice has made us feel apathy towards it.
I guess that we humans can show certain values only when they are coming from our inside convictions and not from an imposed model.
It is a thought that comes to the mind when I see the Brisbane people volunteering in masses for the clean up of their city after the flooding last week, helping each other like brothers and sisters with a common interest in their community.
