For many of us, service implies the work we do for our employers, customers, families, and friends. We serve to receive something back in turn – love, or money, or security, or favors, for examples. On an esoteric level, we may believe that our service will bring “good karma,” in the spirit of what goodness goes around surely comes back around in the end.
But what about giving service just for the sake of doing it, without any expectations or outcomes tied to it? Are we Me-focused Americans bereft of altruism? Maybe not. Maybe, but not all of the time.
