During my high school and college years, I’ve had the opportunity to attend abroad
mission trips to third world countries, Nicaragua and Mexico specifically. While on those trips, we lived like they
did. There was no phone service, no hot
showers, and sometimes no roof over our head.
While it seems like that’s a horrible way to live, I actually really
looked forward to going back every summer because it forced me to get away from
the fast paced, materialistic life. While
it made me very thankful for the things we have here in America, it changed the
way I looked at life. They have close to
nothing, yet they were the happiest people I had ever met. Relationships with other people are really
all they have most of the time and those relationships were some of the
strongest I’ve witnessed. Technology
allows us to keep in touch with friends and family at all times and those who
live far away, but does that actually make our relationships stronger?
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