On Sunday, November 6 the Doyle scholars took about 2 hours out of their day to collect items from areas around Briar Cliff to put into the food drive. At first I really didn’t want to go to the event. It was from two to four, which is in the middle of the day and I felt like this was time that I could have put to better use. I just had no motivation to do anything on a Sunday afternoon. Nevertheless, I went. Everyone was put into around 15 groups and each group was given a map of the area in which they were supposed to collect food items. My group was pretty large, with around 8 or 10 people, so we split our group in half in order to get to every house as quickly as possible. In my group were myself, Taylor Craig, Brittney Walsh, and Sydney Moran. I nominated to drive everyone to our selected neighborhood with my car. I really did not want to go to this, but when we arrived in the neighborhood the three girls told me that I could just stay in my car and follow them while they went door to door and collected food items. Of course I agreed. I mean why would I want to walk when I can drive. This definitely helped my morale some. I drove for a good hour, just following the girls as they collected food and putting it in my trunk, which was slowly filling up. My trunk was filling up more than I had anticipated. Almost everyone that answered the door donated food and some people even left food out ahead of time for us to collect. It was then that I realized what we were really out collecting this food for. These two hours that I was giving up was helping give food to people less fortunate than the people donating and less fortunate than myself. I realized the importance of my time spent in order to help get people food.
So after we had been going at it for about an hour, or halfway, I let Taylor (my girlfriend) drive my car while I went from house to house. My feelings toward this event had changed and now I was perfectly fine with walking from house to house, asking people to donate for the food drive, and carry many bags of food. We finished in a little less than an hour. My trunk was completely full. It a good thing it was empty beforehand, because we ended up having to pile bags on top of each other. Seeing this only increased my feeling of the good that we were doing in collecting food for the needy and also the goodness of the many people who donated for the food drive.
