Thanksgiving 2003
Posted Dec 05, 2003

William Arthur Ward is credited with saying, "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." Our MurthyBulletin subscribers will be reading this after Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. Although the day has passed, once again, I hope to be able to keep its spirit with me.

In our daily lives and work, there are so many things for which to be grateful. I am grateful for our clients who have entrusted us with their lives, in essence, by allowing us the privilege of handling their cases. I am grateful also, for our excellent staff here at The Law Office of Sheela Murthy, P.C. Their quality as people is reflected in the quality of their work, which has kept clients coming to us at a time when the economy has adversely affected so many others in our profession. In gratitude for our own good fortune, our team bands together for charitable causes. Some of the things we do locally to help those less fortunate are collect school supplies in the fall, and food and canned goods at the holidays. We also "adopted a family" in transition, through the YWCA. The Law Office of Sheela Murthy and the MurthyFoundation have made contributions in both the United States and in India to a variety of causes, including those that help in the education of street children and providing health services to women and children in India, for disaster relief, and to help the victims of September 11^th.

I am reminded of the Warner Brothers film from 2000, Pay it Forward, starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osmont. By helping someone today, we are expressing our gratitude for the help or opportunities that have been given to us, and hopefully enabling those we help to, in turn, do the same for someone else tomorrow. It is an awesome concept that really does have the potential to change things on a global scale.

~ Sheela Murthy