Rachel Cohen had decided that volunteering her time wasn't really worth her time.

I'm 32 years old, and I'd say really since I was in late high school junior, senior year,

I started to see volunteering as kind of pointless.

It wasn't going to make a big difference on the things I cared about.

It wasn't going to move the needle. So I just stopped doing it.

But then she changed her mind. And then that changed her life.

Hi, it's Rachel with We Are Family.

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To-day! Today! Subscribe now. I'm Noelle King with Vox's Rachel Cohen.

Rachel covers some of the most fraught topics in America, abortion, child care, housing.

Then earlier this year, she wrote a more personal

essay that got a very big response. It was about how she changed her mind about volunteering.

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