Jan 06 2009
Life experiences
Life teaches lessons that help people learn from their mistakes. In my life, I have experienced many moments from which I have learned a lesson from. One of those moments was moving from a rich and prosperous country, The United States, to one of the worlds slowly developing places, Cameroon.
In the US, I was accustomed to having everything I wanted very easily. For example, if I was in the mood for a movie, I could order one on the television or buy one from the video store. But here in Cameroon, things are not easily obtainable. If I want a movie in Cameroon I would have to resort to downloading it from the internet or borrowing one from a friend. When a person leaves a rich country to go to a poor one, they begin to see the value of life.
The lesson, from which I have learned the most from in life, is that not everybody in the world has the same advantages that you have. In America, you don’t see a vast amount of people begging for money or health care nor do you see a person making 20 dollars a month. Once you go to a poorer country you begin to see that not many people have the same abilities or advantages as you, such as food, water, healthcare, and a well-paying salary that gets you through everyday troubles. For example, everyday I get up from a warm bed, have breakfast, shower and have someone drive me to school. On my way to school I see many children who are walking or taking public transportation. Seeing the country’s poverty level, I can assume that almost half of those children did not have enough money to have breakfast, had to walk to school because their parents could not pay a driver or gasoline to take them to it, and that they most likely had a shower without warm or even clean water.
In summary, in life one sees many things before their eyes, but many of those things go unnoticed, such as how lucky the person is to have the chance to be where they are today, far from the troubles of poverty. I also learned that not everyone has the same opportunities as you, such as being able to afford clean water for morning showers or affording healthcare. If everybody recognized the things which are not taken into consideration and did something to help or aid the person, in the end we would not have to compare ourselves to others.
