When You've Got So Much To Say It's Called Gratitude

         

            In this technological era, where everything is expanding so quickly, there is so much that we as humans take for granted every day.  One thing I definitely take for granted is time, though it may not be a physical object, I spend so much time with technology that I become a home body.  Granted I'm creating music, doing homework, etc. but I feel like it's also making me lazy, and way to connected to my computer, that I lose my mind if I go a day without it.  I used to run every day, and go to fitness classes 3 times a week, now I'm lucky to run 3 days a week, and I feel like I'm wasting time not being active.  Another thing that not only myself but everybody takes advantage of is a cellphone, our cellphone has to be the best one out, however, there was a time where having a phone was a luxury.  There's a house on my street, where Alexander Graham Bell made his first "long distance call", the call - from Somerville, MA to Boston, MA not even 3 miles.  That was seen as an amazing discovery, now it seems so minute, and meaningless.
             There's so much I am grateful for, as I was lucky to grow up the way I did and know the people that I did.  I've grown up to be very smart because my mother worked as PTA President, so I was always at school, and always learning, I had a distinct advantage that I didn't realize how advantageous it was.  I also have many connections both through family, and from networking, with my uncle as VP of Human Resources at Reebok I got to see how shoes were designed and created.  I've had several different jobs that I never had to "apply" to, they were just given to me.  Finally I had the opportunity to travel to Spain/Portugal in 8th grade, among a group of 30 students, paying over $1,800 to go on the trip I was lucky enough to have two parents with jobs that could satisfy that price.  There's so much in my life that I'm grateful for.
            One thing I've been able to take in a lot more is the power of books and what it's done in terms of my vocabulary and also my creativity.  Books like Game of Thrones, and Joyland and other books, are ones that I overlooked before, but now that I'm reading them I can't put them down.  I've bought more books in the past 3 months than I had read, in high school (15 give or take).  I also believe I'm able to absorb the enjoyment of conversation, an art I feel has diminished with the introduction of technology and social media.  I could talk for hours, and I always enjoy some who knows how to keep a conversation and doesn't involve me having to carry a conversation.  You know what they say, "the more connected we are, the more alone we become." Talk more.

Sunrise

The world opens up
The color restores to us
You are alive now

Music

Feelings of our heart
The outside world is blinded
Emotion fills us

Parents

Never growing far
Like a bear with her babies
They always defend

Spirit

I see them watching
Teaching me all the secrets
That you cannot see

Teachers

The unknown heroes
The most important people
Without, life cannot

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