Life lessons

I often find that you are taught to see the pain that the world has created. Wars happening, children suffering, starvation, abandonment and death. But what about all the joy and beauty the world has to offer? I am the farthest from my family and my home, in a place that is so foreign from the one I grew up in, a Country we so easily label as less fortunate then our own and yet I have not seen any pain; instead I see strength, compassion, and survival. You make the best of what you've got and you live happily, that is how they strive to live their lives. They do not see the things they do not have, they do not feel pity, instead they wear their hearts on their sleeves giving you the greatest gift of all... Friendship.

To all of my new friends, you are a force to be reckoned with. Life itself can learn a thing or two from you.