Every couple of years, my family takes a trip to my father's homeland, India. He moved from the country when he was in his late teens to go to college at Michigan State. I have visited India around seven time already, and as I get older, I really get to understand what life is like for the 1 billion people that crowd the country. While we drive through the streets, we see thousands of shacks and huts the crowd the side of the streets, and kids wearing practically nothing, trying to entertain themselves in the dirty mud and water of the rivers. While the kids are playing, mothers and older girls are carrying clothes to the river to wash them and are cooking what little food they have. In the mean time, fathers and older boys are working out in the fields herding cows, making bricks out of mud and manure, and some of the exotic fruit the country has to offer. When i get a chance to meet these hard workers, they are extremely friendly and even offer money and gifts even though they have nearly nothing. This whole experience is extremely humbling and makes me realize how lucky i am to posses the things that i own.
"There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish."
"There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish."
Thank you for sharing Nick. It definitely sounds like your life experience could be a lesson to so many teenagers at MHS.
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