This day was my first trip outdoors after I fractured my foot. It is true that I did not have the chance to run, have fun or do the volunteer activity; however, I had the chance to observe the beauty of nature, and most importantly to chat with our bus driver for that day. Because I suck at remembering names, I cannot tell exactly what his name was. He is a middle-aged person who has spent twenty five years studying and working in the USA.
This Indian man who was really compassionate and caring enough to give up the A.C in his bus joined me in the heated weather outside in Chesapeake Bay. We brought up a lot of subjects, one of which is the differences between his home country India and the United States of America.
According to him, it is really expensive to live in the USA. This is one of the reasons that made him step pursuing his education which brought him here in the first place. I remember he said “I started to cut classes and I got a part time job till I finally decided to stop going to school. I had to pay the bills and sustain my family”. I believe that he is a wonderful person or allow me to say he is a leader who put aside his future and who compromised for his family’s sake. This is how every leader should be. A true leader should think of the people’s benefit he leads before thinking of his own self interests first.
I hope I am quoting him right, but those words are really lessons of a self-made successful person whose daughters now are studying to be doctors; one of his daughters was even rewarded as the top student in her school and the area around.
“I work my back hard here, and I am trying to do my best for my daughters who have always made me proud”.
“In order to be satisfied and content in your life, you need to learn how to compromise and accept”
Anhar Taha- Inspiration 