Semester 2 - Post 17

Dear Nata Village,
I was reading this post when I realized just how much we, here in America, take for granted. This post really brought me back to reality. There are so many blessings that I have that I look at as “not good enough” or “pointless.” Something like education is just expected in our culture, which makes it easy to take it for granted. Seeing the look on those children’s faces as they were sitting there coloring with their new school supplies really made me realize that education is a gift. People in many other countries are not expected to go to school, and some are not even allowed to go, but in America kids all over the country look at school as a downer or something that is a waste of time. Here I am sitting at my computer doing a simple homework assignment dreading school tomorrow when I see these children mentioned in this post. It really made me realize that I am lucky to have a computer to do homework on and I am lucky to have an amazing education. It was very refreshing to see children excited to learn, and so happy with the simple gift of new school supplies. I hope more people come across this post so they can see how blessed we truly are to have little things like pencils and paper. Hopefully this will act with a “snowball effect” so that more and more people realize how special education is and how lucky we really are. Thank you for hitting me with a touch of reality!

Link to the artical here: Nata Village