Jamaica is the land of beauty, inspiration, and desire for most tourists to escape to....
People live here, work here, and many times suffer here, but at the end of the road, most have HOPE for a better life.....
Family work together and take care of each other day in and day out...
Taking care of the little ones is the job of the older sons and daughters. It's an early life of parenting which sometimes takes away from a youthful carefree childhood...
A day on the beach selling fruit can yield the evenings supper for the family, but it can also take it's toll on ones physical well being. But in Jamaican, there will be no more food to eat unless she goes back tomorrow and every day after that....
A housekeeper will make your bed and clean your room, but each and every moment she might be worried about a sick child at home. You won't see that on her face unless you really look at her eyes and expression or spend the time to ask. Only then, you might understand and see her despair...
Sometimes by the side of the road young women wait for the school bus or for a ride to work at one of the large AI's. Long hours...sometimes from dawn till dusk with very little pay. It's what's necessary to help out the exended family.
Many Jamaican men work day and night even with children in tow...
All in a day's work ....it's about the children....
Young men will do what it takes for a few tourist dollars, but with a smile and a kind word...they have already learned how life works....
But every Sunday...young street workers, upstanding family, and young men and women who hustle for every tourist dollar will take the time for their elders and church, Every small blessing will sooth ones soul...
