Citizenship

In my opinion citizenship is fulfilling your civic duties while also taking care of your community. It's simple to understand, but not so simple to do. It takes dedication to your values and elements around you.

Fulfilling your civic duties are very important. If you want to be a part of something, you need to be involved. This means doing research on the issues around you, voting for your leaders, and having an active voice in the community.

However, fulfilling your duties is not enough. Fulfilling your duties just helps you to make the right decisions, acting upon them is much more important. Voting gets leaders into office, but you cannot stop there. You must take initiative to improve your community as well. This can be done through community service, raising money for a charity, or doing projects that will improve some aspect of life. It also means getting others around you involved as well. A group effort is much more powerful than the individual.

My fraternity does a lot of this. We are active in researching problems and voting on people who say they will fix them. We are active in philanthropies and very active in community service. However, there are still some member who are not. There are members that are just in it for the joy ride and none of the work. As I said the more people involved, the better the outcome. We must find a way to get these people on board if we want to make a powerful impact.