sorry salituro, i kind of copied one of your titles!
Colleen's(I hope thats the right name) presentation of her trip to Tenzania, really opened my eyes to how lucky our country is. Its not that before her presentation I thought our country was terrible or anything, but, we aren't exactly grateful for what we have here. Or at least that's what I think. We all have our problems; many are worse than other's, within each household, town, state, etc but as a whole I think we forget how lucky we are and how well we live compared to other countries. We individually get so caught up in our own problems that we forget about all the lucky things we actually do have compared to others. And the sad part is, we're all guilty of it. I know I am very guilty of it. Maybe its just me, but I feel like so many people are so busy thinking that their life sucks so much and they get so caught up in contemplating how bad everything is, that they forget about the good things that are happening to them. In other words, they're so consumed with the bad that they take for granted the good. I find it a large issue today, and maybe thats why more and more people are diagnosed with depression as the years go by. But now I'm drifting from my main point, which is that we're all so busy just thinking " me, me, me."
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I agree about how everyone takes things for granted. It is really sad to see how people in other countries live without food, shelter, clothing,etc., and how people in America complain about things that are not that all importatant. I know I complain bout things that I shouldn't be complaining about, and I am going to try to stop it the best that I can.
Clever title, Anita. Yes her name is Colleen. I agree with you. I think everything is relative and so is our perception of how well off we are. Colleen's experiences really help put that into perspective. Hopefully our community service will too.
i like your blog and yea it really makes sense. i would so want to have a experience like this and not take things for advantage. her presentation was really interesting, i loved how she told us about all the different kinds of children she worked with.
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