My 25 year old cousin confesses to me that out of all the people he knows, I am the one with the biggest and most noble heart and that no matter what decisions I make in life, he has the absolute trust that I’ll end up making the right choices and go in the right direction.

When he told me that I felt like I wanted to cry. But of course, being the anti-emotion portray-er that I am, I looked out the car window; instead took a deep breath, and casually wiped eyes. There was no way I was letting him and his girlfriend see me cry.

The thing is, all it takes is a simple comment like that to remind you of who you are and of those qualities we often forget we have. I heard stories about my late grandfather and I hear how he was this noble man and always helping those around him and being so kind. As I heard these stories about how he helped pay for so & so to attend school and how he helped this person move forward after such event and all these stories about how he was just this selfless person. I just couldn’t help but to say this small little prayer to God asking him to please give me a noble and genuine heart like my grandfather. To please allow me to have that heart of servitude, that heart that gives to others because you have been blessed with the resources to give.

So, when I heard my cousin said those words, that I have “el corazon mas grande y noble…” it was as if God was reminding me I already was blessed with having the same kind of heart as my grandfather. The heart that I admired from the stories I would hear. That if someone has taken notice of it at my tender age of 19, then I was indeed on that right path, and that indeed I will end up at the right place.