I'm grateful for this moment, because in 57, 58, 59, there's another minute past, and
I wonder if I was able to hold it the way it should have been held, the way it should
have been noticed.
The answer is probably not.
In fact, no, I'm sure no, because we so often focus on the past and the future that we miss
this moment.
So I'm grateful for this moment.
If you notice, you're breathing, you're breathing, and you're younger than the last generation
who were just like you, worried about the past and the future, so much that they missed
their moment.
And now their moments are fleeting, while our heads are down, replying, deleting, commuting,
texting, speeding, flaunting, wanting, needing, but stop.
You're breathing, you're breathing, and we won't always be.
Don't you see this moment is about me seeing you, and it's about you seeing me.
It's about us shedding the cloak of who we're pretending to be so we can just be, so we
can just breathe in the skin that we're given, so we can be grateful for the life that we're
given, because a hundred years from now, we all will be gone, but the earth will still
be spinning.
And there'll be a new generation focused on the past and the future missing their breath.
Looking at pictures of our generation, wondering what it was like to be us, but not really
caring very much, because they'll be busy, flaunting, wanting, needing, but hold up.
We're still here, breathing, breathing, breathing.
So what's your name?
Name is Jorlene.
And what does gratitude mean to you?
Gratitude means being present.
So I think when we're in gratitude, we're able to look at what's in front of us.
It means open heart, a gift of giving.
Please.
That's great.
I'm sure he's got a bigger choice.
Good moments are great, and bad moments is a way of learning how to get to those who
haven't seen life in a while.
Check it out, man.
Getting a car.
Sure.
Hi, my God.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
What I'm doing here is just focusing on people, people that are mostly poor and vulnerable
and having enough money to survive, focus on that specific person to see if I can help
them recover by giving them food, bringing them to the hospital, to the clinic, and to
see that they take their medication.
So we take the poorest of the poor.
We take the most vulnerable kids, and really the kids that are identified by their own
care workers.
Without them, we just actually cannot really do the work that we're doing, because they
are the ones who live in the community.
They are the ones who go out and are aware of where the problems lie, because when you
just drive past them, you can't really see that there's maybe even situations here that
are in need of any help.
And just living and serving the people in this community who is vulnerable to the virus
and to the TB, and just assisting them, taking them to the clinics, necessarily taking them
to the hospital, and just doing basic home-based care work.
The quote that I forget who it's by that says, gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
I'm sure I butcher that with something along those lines.
So I think I'm grateful because I'm happy, and because I'm in awe of a lot of the things
that happen around me.
I rely on gratitude as a leader.
I teach love, and love is about appreciating life and relationship and connection.
Gratitude to me is not waiting until things are gone for you to realize you have it,
and you're actually really blessed.
