Comments on: What I Learned from the People of Haiti http://www.drpapillon.com/what-i-learned-from-the-people-of-haiti/389/ Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:26:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Debbie http://www.drpapillon.com/what-i-learned-from-the-people-of-haiti/389//comment-page-1#comment-62 Debbie Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:26:58 +0000 http://www.drpapillon.com/?p=389#comment-62 I can definitely relate to this blog, since I have seen things differently in my own life for the past 2 weeks. My favorite news picture so far has been of a woman looking up to the sky, singing. It really made me think to myself how thankful these people are just to merely be ALIVE - something I wish more people could do (and something I am striving to do on a daily basis myself.) I find myself complaining less - and when I DO think of complaining about something, i think about the people of Haiti and then think to myself "If THIS is the worst thing that is going to happen to me today, then my day has not been bad at all" Suddenly, past annoyances such as long lines, traffic, forgetting my ipod for the drive to work, running out of coffee, etc. do NOT seem to matter much anymore. I find myself taking even more time to be thankful for all that I have. Tonight at dinner I was sure to look at my water, my food, my surroundings, my company and truly feel blessed to have those things in front of me. The only things I have been wrestling with lately are questions...and guilt. Questions like: Why them? Why a country that has already suffered so much? Why not a place that was better equipped to handle such a disaster? Guilt such as: Boy, I sure feel guilty eating all this food in front of me when THEY have none. Man, I feel bad about using my clean water to wash my dishes when THEY don't even have clean water to drink. Things like that..... This tragedy has definitely changed the way I look at my everyday life and the simple blessings of each day that I have taken for granted - and has changed what I will complain about from now on.... I can definitely relate to this blog, since I have seen things differently in my own life for the past 2 weeks. My favorite news picture so far has been of a woman looking up to the sky, singing. It really made me think to myself how thankful these people are just to merely be ALIVE – something I wish more people could do (and something I am striving to do on a daily basis myself.) I find myself complaining less – and when I DO think of complaining about something, i think about the people of Haiti and then think to myself “If THIS is the worst thing that is going to happen to me today, then my day has not been bad at all”

Suddenly, past annoyances such as long lines, traffic, forgetting my ipod for the drive to work, running out of coffee, etc. do NOT seem to matter much anymore. I find myself taking even more time to be thankful for all that I have. Tonight at dinner I was sure to look at my water, my food, my surroundings, my company and truly feel blessed to have those things in front of me.

The only things I have been wrestling with lately are questions…and guilt.
Questions like: Why them? Why a country that has already suffered so much? Why not a place that was better equipped to handle such a disaster?
Guilt such as: Boy, I sure feel guilty eating all this food in front of me when THEY have none. Man, I feel bad about using my clean water to wash my dishes when THEY don’t even have clean water to drink. Things like that…..

This tragedy has definitely changed the way I look at my everyday life and the simple blessings of each day that I have taken for granted – and has changed what I will complain about from now on….

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