I fought the fight

To love my job 

The reason why I feel so much gratitude toward my job is because I have had jobs in which I knew were unfulfilling, I wouldn’t know the good without the bad. I work at an Elementary school, assisting a classroom during the morning and working as a group leader in the after school program. I love it because I know that the kids look up to me, and they enjoy my attention- and I happily give it to them with great effort and kindness. I feel as though I am giving them the attention they want while displaying that “cool” people should be kind, polite, and care for others. 

All of the previous jobs I have had, I felt like I was just running in circles around town, waitressing, working at places like Abercrombie and Fitch, I just felt like a robot. Not that there is anything wrong with having those jobs, there is a point I’d like to make: which is that different people are a better fir for different things. Maybe somebody works at a job that others would scorn, but it works for that person. So, that is where they belong; where it works and is a good fit for them regardless of what it is.

 I am a passionate person; I needed more gratification at a place in which I spent SO much of my time. I needed to know I was displaying love and care to other human beings in this world. I started off with volunteering at a homeless shelter and volunteering with women with special needs and autism. I started to realize how good it felt to put a smile on someones face, the warm amazing feeling after climbing into my car and driving away after it was over. Not only that, but all of the small wonderful moments you share with others because you were there.

d o   n o t   g i v e   u p   ;   
g r e a t   t h i n g s   t a k e   t i m e 

At the homeless shelter, I remember a little girl telling me that girls were calling her ugly. She was not ugly, she was about 6 years old. Also, I do not even believe in people being “ugly”, people are unique—it’s what makes us who we are. Anyways, I told the little girl that she was one of the prettiest girls I have seen in my entire life and that they were just saying that because they were jealous, bored, and mean (she said that her mom told her the same thing). She seemed to be on the same page with me. Then, I looked at her, very close-- face to face, and I said “Pinky promise me that the next time somebody says anything mean to you, that you will remember it is because THEY are rude which is an ugly thing to be. And promise me you’ll remember how beautiful I told you you are? I never, ever lie!” and as we slided our pinkies together, it made me realize, wow… I want to do this every day. I thought to myself “I need to get into a job where I am given the opportunity to give back”.

I think that no matter what your job is, if you ask for it in your mind, you will be given opportunities to turn somebodies frown upside down. Even if you are a waitress, you can compliment a person who clearly made effort into their hair and make-up. You can try to pay attention to a senior who is eating alone (something that makes all of us want to cry). I find gratitude in my job because of my co-workers being wonderful understanding people, my freedom to be with the children sharing special moments

t h e r e  i s  a  c a l m n e s s  t o   a   l i f e  

 l i v e d   i n   g r a t i t u d e ,   a   q u i e t   j o y .

                                                                                          - Ralph H. Blum

You wanna change the world?

I gotchu dawg, I gotta  sprint,

Aint got time to jog

Ima get this dream on track

We’ll show em all

That we stand up, each time we fall

Food, water, health for those who need

No time to waste, we jus gotta feed

These kids out here, going through trash

Im out to find em, I wont have that

Five year old kids in the burbs wit a iphone

But when it comes to charity

They say they money blown

What are we doin?

Why aint it poverty we pursuin’?

We gotta open peoples eyes to these poor kids out here

While we on our phones, they all up in fear

Of how they gon get they next meal

 man that aint right

But if we gonna do this

We gon put up a fight