What's In It For Me?

What’s in it for me (WIIFM)? happens to be a question that drives almost every decision we make as young people in our lives from the moment we wake up to our bedtime. It guides our every action today. Besides, all the competing priorities of modern life, we often ask ourselves when someone talks about change or giving back to the community, "What's In It For You?"  This has always been the question I come across when people see the work I do in my community. Then you happen to ask yourself the same question and wish you had not asked it from you because you'll end up with the most beautiful reasons once can ever think of. 

Since, humans are not as generous as the God or the Earth, I'd like to use them for an example to illustrate the meaning of the question. So, let's try to change our roles , where the environment we live in, the planet Earth we are a part of asks the question themselves, when we approach them for rain after three months of heat on our bodies, and the answer we get is a 'No", will you and I be able to survive for too long? The reason why we still continue to receive the amazing blessings on earth is because God is good and the environment freely gives them to us, not asking itself if he has enough for him/her. That's why we need to not take things we are blessed with as we like it, for granted, because we might turn over a blind eye to the things happening around us. 

I personally believe that we should love people unconditionally , reach out unconditionally, help the Earth to keep it's balance that's the true joy in one's life. Sadly, people today expect to do something nice in return for what nice thing the other person did for them. That's why we need to look at community work as a form of expressing your love for change instead of asking yourself, what's in it for me? this will ultimately help you achieve your bigger visions in life and scale up your work, even without you knowing.