I have been thinking about M’s comment that ‘service is universal’…especially in light of an interview I watched on the Sun website a few days ago. The interview was with a reporter who had been with Markle when that Fiji tour was abruptly cut short after some had waited hours to greet her…
MEGHAN Markle’s Fiji market drama was a “sign of what was to come”, claims a royal expert who witnessed the moment. Meghan was being given a tour of Suva Market with Prince H…
www.thesun.co.uk
This truly was a sign of things to come…and how she viewed ‘service.’
There was a time in the US…where every city had a Junior League…and other similar charitable/cultural organizations…where women fortunate enough to have the time and means..would do volunteer charity work. “Giving back.” was the mantra.
There were two types of women involved. One type actually worked at ‘charity work’, doing whatever mental/physical work that the volunteer (non-paying) job required. Hands on…sometimes in the scarier parts of the city…going to courtrooms with battered women…taking calls to pick someone up at a bus station in the middle of the night, they stepped up and showed up.. We would call this ‘doing windows.’ A dedication to do whatever was needed.
That’s how they saw…’giving back.’
Then there were the others…who would write a check. Sometimes a big one. About the only time you’d see them was when the newspaper would take pictures..THAT they would have time for. Or at the parties, dressed to the nines
That was their definition of ‘service.’
Your POW ‘does windows.’ In fact, that is the job of the RF, isn’t it? No matter what…not ever to disappoint those who came to see them in person. To push through always thinking of others…representing something bigger than yourself…your country.
Meghan is a ‘check-writer’ She loves to show up for the photos..for the awards…for the glitz. Otherwise as she so candidly stated…she really should get paid for it.
That’s HER definition of service.