Citizenship

Since my early days as a boyscout, 4-Her, and FFA member the idea of citizenship has been pounded into my head as an individual.  We would find little ways to help the community of Edon about once a month.  The standard means of help were always used trash pick-up, raking the leaves of the elderly, collection of canned food, just to name a few.  While this form of citizenship is nice and indeed helpful, since my time here at OSU and as a man of FarmHouse my view of citizenship has changed.

While I completely in favor of doing these little activities that help the community. I do now see the large realm of what it means to be a good citizen.  I would define my view of citizenship in three terms: accountability, collaboration, and acknowledgement.

Accountability:
First and foremost is the idea of holding your fellow community members accountable.  This part is the idea of preventing possible problems that your community would face.  This happens at multiple levels in the Greek Community within your house, council wide, and the total community.

Collaboration:
This part is fairly self explanatory,  You cannot fully solve a community-wide issue without the help and buy-in of all involved parties.  By keeping this in mind we not only will be able to make some change, but it will be sustainable change.

Acknowledgement: 
Realism is the other term i think of when acknowledgement.  This is just the idea that we must understand that at times people do not want help nor are they willing to abide by your plans.  You must keep this in the back of your head as you go on trying to help society around you.

There they are! Its simple but I feel that citizenship is itself fairly straightforward.

CP