Teamwork can lead to that refinement and satisfaction. It’s one excited feeling when we’re the “fresh blood,” and yet another enthusiastic one when we begin to witness the new “fresh blood” that come after us. With a new road ahead of us, we naturally tend to be energetic and set agendas for ourselves. Once we start to look back at our experiences, it’s that fulfillment that provides the same energy for us.
My own perceptions of what I can do in a part of a team was defined and refined as I became a part of several teams in my life. A family is a team because that vitality and love is a result of teamwork. Then there’s the most direct sense of teamwork from being a part of a sport team, a school club, or a youth program. Then comes the teamwork in our future occupations, our community, and beyond. I became the most strongly aware of the contentment I get from teamwork as I became a volunteer, a youth steering committee member, and later a blogger.
I don’t think I put too much thought when I decided to do volunteer projects; I tasted the sweet fruits of labour and accomplishment and that was about it when I reflected right after my first time helping out. You could almost say I was “mindlessly” volunteering as I first set foot into this then-foreign arena. To put it simply, there wasn’t anyone to guide me and tell me the programs I could apply for or the goals I would be heading for. In that tireless fashion, I wound up applying for Youth Central committees and got to be on the Youth Volunteer Corps steering committee. For one, I didn’t know where I got that courage or why I was propelled to do so. Along the same path, I then took up the art of blogging as I started contributing right here on Youth Are Awesome.
The impacts of these teams as my biggest motivation didn’t strike me until I began to feel that I was losing grip on this volunteer world – the shining stars, the new opportunities, and most importantly those sweet fruits. I might have lost out on the gossip, but it took me a while to understand that it’s those people around me that offered me the merits of this teamwork – the appreciation for our work, the response for our writing, and respect for our growth. They are the reason I know where I stand today in terms of where I stand and how I’ve came to know my strongest skills.
Being in a group dynamic means that we end up specializing, but in a dynamic position; I’m a relatively banal person that lacks those leadership skills, but I know that I can at least be a pillar to the best of my abilities. On my committee, that means I could devote time to make those plans my fellow members have drafted a work come true. Among us bloggers, that means I could read and relate to my fellow blogger’s works to my heart’s desire. At a volunteer project, that could mean helping out another youth and encouraging them to create their own journey.
Looking back, I sustained my own volunteer run as older volunteers lead in fostering that team environment. Similarly, it’s the discussions that we bloggers have at meetings that builds my writing experience. Now, it’s the “fresh blood” of this time that bring insights onto this table and will embrace this group dynamic themselves. They’ll be legends in their own right as we all guide their path. As a team, we hold our fellow members up and our members support us the same.
So it’s time to start exploring a new field of teamwork – my family. That could be a blog in it’s own right. It’s another fruit of teamwork.
