This Thanksgiving

It's been a while since I have written something. Well I try to post reasons why I am thankful each year. No one probably reads this at all but I will continue to write. Quoting myself that "My goal is only to be an inspiration to you/ If I’m not that influence, than I drop the pen/And be forever thru" I feel like I can still inspire at least one person. I am confident that one person will read this and I can be the influence, that inspiration. So furthermore, I still give importance to my blog.

This year I am thankful for many things. I am thankful because I just got out of my cast yesterday!! Three months after breaking a small bone in my wrist playing soccer. Its all good tho because these kind of things make you appreciate health more and take advantage that I can do things. About a week ago a meet another chapin on the bus and he had just gotten a cast. He was with his son and asked him how long he has had it. He told me that after a month he just gotten it and he had for a month. The first part shocked me. One month with a broken bone. He had to work, continue with his daily life with a broken bone. I don't if I can do that and all I do is go to school. And then I thought he was lucky because people in extreme poverty will never have the luxury of a cast. And if he is lucky then I have to be one of the luckiest person ever. I thank God because I am covered by my Dad's health insurance. I am thankful because my Dad's job gives their employees health benefits. Things like this is worthy of being grateful. Three weeks with a cast sucks but me having a cast to help cure my broken wrist is something I am extremely thankful.

Another thing that I am extremely thankful is the opportunities I have to serve my community. I also thank God because to me that's my talent, that's my purpose. I know it. There is no doubt in my mind, body, and soul. The opportunities to serve and be part of my community have presented themselves through two orgs at school that I am in love with: Hermanos Unidos and La Escuelita. HU is the family. I went in for community service and came out with brothers I never had. To be part of the bond is so important to me. It's truly unbelievable. And I get to be with brothers to do community service? That takes it over the top. Before I did things my way. I helped my way and did what I could. I wanted to help my people. With HU that last sentence becomes to help our people. La Escuelita allows me to connect with the children I knew before hand. LE keeps me constantly connected with my community, my people. And like HU, I have met some great people in LE and already know I can count on them to be friends. It took me long enough but I finally got involved with some orgs and I still do what I love to do. And that is to help my people. And what helped me join was a little push. A little push by someone I am truly grateful for: Flavid Montoya. That's a shout out to my boy. What ever I do in both orgs is because he is the one who talked to me at the Arbor.

Continuing with my gratitude is always the same--and the values of each person/thing never diminishes but enhances. God, my family, my friends, me being Guatemalan (being Latino is a gift I think), my health, my possessions, and my heart for my people.

I hope everyone has a great thanksgiving and remember we owe something to the Native Americans because the pilgrims and the people afterwards have displaced them as they have my Mayans. I have all indigenous people in my mind because I would not be me without my indigenous blood. I am thankful that I am indigenous too!