Blog post of the week
Issue date: 2/22/10 Section: Entertainment
The San Jacinto Times now has a staff blog. You can check it out at sanjactimesstaff@wordpress.com
Each week, we will publish the best of our blog postings.
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Lately I have been thinking of what truly matters. After going to the Aquarium in downtown, riding the Ferris wheel, looking at the aquarium, and paying a emptying pocket amount for dinner for Valentines day I have come to realize how fortunate I am.
There are plenty of times where I have complained and complained and complained about situations like no AC in the summer or the Ipod breaking. When really when I think about it there are people that are just happy for having food to eat for dinner.
I have been to Mexico quite a bit throughout my life, and seeing how they live their life is truly life changing. I went down for the first time in 7th grade with my church. My life before that trip, I would say, was a little bit on the stuck up side. However, my life was awakened to the other side really fast. I saw children running barefoot through some of the rockiest places I have ever seen in my life, kids playing with sticks, playing with flat soccer balls, and they were happy. They were happy with the life that they were living.
Yeah, they wanted more money or more food, but when I went there to help them, to give them food, to give them clothes, they were the ones that wanted to make me food, make me feel at home. When we came into their home, we could see their embarrassment on their faces for how dirty their house was. They wanted to please us, they wanted us to feel like family.
I guess the reason why I was just looking back on this was because of my Valentines day. When we got to the Aquarium we had to wait for two and a half hours for our table, and the more that we waited the more I saw people complaining about their reservations and about when they would be seated. They knew that they would be seated, they knew that would eat that night. It just made me realize that we know that we will have a meal whenever we want, and we can choose that meal, unlike the people in Acuna, Mexico who have what they have and are grateful for that.
All the times I complain about not having something, not being able to do something, or even just complaining about a situation that doesn't even matter. I need to remember to be grateful for what I have. A roof over my head, a car to take me where my heart desires, and food when and where I want. There is really not a lot of things that I can't be grateful for.
-Shawn Tripputi
Each week, we will publish the best of our blog postings.
Drop by the site and check us out; feel free to comment on our posts or share story ideas. Also, please join our group on Facebook. Here is this weeks's post:
Lately I have been thinking of what truly matters. After going to the Aquarium in downtown, riding the Ferris wheel, looking at the aquarium, and paying a emptying pocket amount for dinner for Valentines day I have come to realize how fortunate I am.
There are plenty of times where I have complained and complained and complained about situations like no AC in the summer or the Ipod breaking. When really when I think about it there are people that are just happy for having food to eat for dinner.
I have been to Mexico quite a bit throughout my life, and seeing how they live their life is truly life changing. I went down for the first time in 7th grade with my church. My life before that trip, I would say, was a little bit on the stuck up side. However, my life was awakened to the other side really fast. I saw children running barefoot through some of the rockiest places I have ever seen in my life, kids playing with sticks, playing with flat soccer balls, and they were happy. They were happy with the life that they were living.
Yeah, they wanted more money or more food, but when I went there to help them, to give them food, to give them clothes, they were the ones that wanted to make me food, make me feel at home. When we came into their home, we could see their embarrassment on their faces for how dirty their house was. They wanted to please us, they wanted us to feel like family.
I guess the reason why I was just looking back on this was because of my Valentines day. When we got to the Aquarium we had to wait for two and a half hours for our table, and the more that we waited the more I saw people complaining about their reservations and about when they would be seated. They knew that they would be seated, they knew that would eat that night. It just made me realize that we know that we will have a meal whenever we want, and we can choose that meal, unlike the people in Acuna, Mexico who have what they have and are grateful for that.
All the times I complain about not having something, not being able to do something, or even just complaining about a situation that doesn't even matter. I need to remember to be grateful for what I have. A roof over my head, a car to take me where my heart desires, and food when and where I want. There is really not a lot of things that I can't be grateful for.
-Shawn Tripputi
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