Good For Me

I am so grateful to have a family like the one I have… it is always good times with them and I really can’t imagine my life without them… We drove down to San Bernardino from LA and we were talking the whole way down. My sister told me a story about a blind man on the sidewalk that had a sign that said, “help me, i’m blind.” People that were passing by would give him money but not alot.  Then a lady went up to him and changed what his little sign said. People started giving the man a lot more money.  When he asked the lady what she had written she said, “the same thing you had written but I re-phrased it.”  The sign now read, “Its a beautiful day but I can’t see it, I’m blind.”  This instantly got me teary eyed.  Two things- 1. I try to constantly remind myself of the good times I have in life.  Although theres alot of things going on out of my control, things could be a lot worse right now. I try to appreciate everything around me because I don’t know if tomorrow is coming.  2. the power in words.  You can say the same thing a lot of ways but if you use the words in a certain way, they make a lasting impact on people.  

The pictures are from today, my parents, aunts, uncles, sisters, cousins, and brother were all happy.  Its been a while since I’ve felt this sense of real happiness in my family.  My immediate family, we have some good times and most of the time are happy but I feel like it hasnt been like that with my extended family.  So needless to say, it felt good to have just a plain old good time with them, free of drama, free of gossip, just good times.  I can’t wait til im older and have my kids and expose them to this… I also enjoy going to San Bernardino to get away from the city. I don’t really notice it while Im in LA but sometimes I just need to get away from the artificiality that I can so easily get caught up in.  Thankful for today, thankful for the future, this is all good for me.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that we played freeze tag… best day ever!