Find your voice, Let it be heard!
For me, it started at a very young age. As long as I can remember, my parents always taught me, the importance of not wasting food and looking to the positive side of every situation life deals you because there is always someone out there who has been dealt a worst hand. Seeing the advertisements on TV about families not having running water, not having enough to eat, or never feeling safe in their own homes, made my heart ache. It put reality in a new perspective. I did not grow up with a lot, but I always had a full tummy going to bed and home I felt safe in. Around the age of 4 or 5, my parents had to make sure I was not calling the phone numbers on the advertisements offering to share my bedroom/home with those families in need. At the time. I did not understand why parents would not let me.
Many years later, I find my self reading a me to we book.
There as questions to be answered at each chapter in a journal.
Here are my first set of answers:
What are you most thankful for?
There are many things. My top list is:
Being able to put food on the table
Feeling safe
Having a good health and healthcare providers
Being surrounded with so much love
Having had the opportunity to go to school and work in the healthcare helping others
What makes you angry?
While there are people in world who cannot make ends meat, there are people constantly competing with others around them to have the biggest, most expensive things in the world, and are willing to pay any price to achieve their goal most often buying way more than what they need. (oversize house, multiple houses and cars, clothes etc) They believe that by accomplishing their goal, they will be looked up to by many. Idunno what is sadder. The fact that so many people have this mind set and tend to want to be friends with people who are like this? Or the fact that there are so many people in world who has dreams of one day having enough food on the table and a safe, comfortable place to call home. Some kids don't even know that a life exist beyond poverty.
what five values guide you through life?
Hard work
Reliability
Respect for others and their choices
Helping others when possible
Positivity










