Column Review

I liked the first column titled, "Something to remember for Thanksgiving" by Mary Schmich. While I do not know what it is like to be poor, nor do I know what it is like to be rich, I can still relate to this column. A lot of times, my parents don't give me what I want. I probably would've been in the same position if I had heard that ice cream truck come by when I was 10. My parents probably would've told me that I couldn't have anything. Then I would've thrown a fit until my mom just gave up and gave me money.  (But by that time, the ice cream truck probably would be gone, so we would go to UDF instead.) But for Mary, I think it's a little different because she knows that this is a special occasion to get something from the ice cream truck because they can't really afford even a $2 Nutty Buddy. Every family has their quotes, and I think her dad's may as well be "We may not have any money, but we are not poor, poverty is a state of mind." I think that is really powerful because he is flat out telling her that they don't have a lot of money, but he is also telling her that they aren't poor if they don't believe they're poor. It's sort of like how the happiest people are not the richest, but the ones who have their family with them. I wish we had some kind of powerful quote like this in our family, because so far, the most powerful quote we have is from my grandma, "If a first you don't succeed, quit." Thanks, Grandma. :)