After a day and a bit here, I’m starting to notice a common trait among Cambodians: gratitude. On the first day when all the people kept playing their sports in the pouring rain because they were grateful that they had the opportunity to play. When we were talking about politics and our local staff mentioned how grateful they are, to this day, that the CPP brought an end to the Khmer Rouge. When we were visiting the NGO Tiny Toones and all the kids kept breakdancing in the rain because they were grateful that they knew how. I find Cambodia to have such an appreciative and hopeful young population. Even our local staff was telling us about their dreams of Cambodia growing and developing into a better country. And frankly, this happiness, hope and gratitude is contagious. It makes me wonder, if they have the ability to be happy when their means and conditions are so much worse than ours, then what’s stopping us from being the happiest people ever? Greediness perhaps? Ungraciousness? The lack of understanding of the privilege we have to have what we have?
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