My California / Mexico Experience

While I was in Mexico, I was amazed at the generosity of the poor Mexican people and how loving and happy they were. One of the men invited us all to his resturant for a chicken dinner, which costed him a week and a halfs worth of wages. We didn't even do anything for him. He just wanted to do this for God.

There was a woman whose husband was in jail. We helped clean around her house. After we were done, she gave us a piece of art that she made, which would have been her food for the month. She gave to us even though she was poor.

It made me realize how terribly selfish us North Americans are. Our values and priorities are messed up. We value things that don't last thinking it'll make us happy, but it doesn't.
Those poor Mexicans don't need money and lots of things to be happy because they have their values in the right places.

There was a woman whose home was damaged from a hurricane. As I was helping tare down her home, I thought to myself, "What if that was my house? How would I react?" I met the woman and her kids and I was so amazed at how happy they were after all they went through. I realize I need to change my values because one day, all my possessions could get destroyed and I could be left with nothing.