When I graduated, I was fortunate enough to be gifted waaaay too much money from my family, and I am eternally grateful and I will pay that back, or forward, some day.
Today, I have a balance of $10.04. Or, if I'm feeling proud, I get to say I have 5,068.19 Costa Rican Colóns.
That's a lot of colons.
Naturally, this is a bit rough. And there's been a lot of time where I've just dazed off into the abyss, thinking "damn."
It's easy, in these moments, to focus on everything going wrong. And I'm sure that I'm not alone in this; my dad's been unemployed a bunch of times. In this economy, as it is, there are millions looking for that one job, so they can get that paycheck to pay the bills.
The important thing, in these moments, is to count your blessings and keep up your hope. I've got a great family, a wonderful and generous fiancée, good friends. I've got a degree, a car, and super awesome writing abilities. Oh, and humility. I'm the most humble person I know. (Html 6 is going to have a <sarcasm> tag. Or it should).
We need these foundations in order to press on in these moments of faltering so that we CAN get to that moment where we ourselves can be the foundation for them when they need it. That, perhaps, is the very basis of our humanity: that we need help, and that we are made to give it.
Picture of colons taken from Wikipedia, created by user BruceBlaus, who is kinda too good at drawing colons, so I'm pretty sure I don't really want to meet him.
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