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| Quote: "Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi |
As the year ends, we wish each other happy New Year and hope that the new year would be better for the entire world and so I thought I would share with you my vision for 2018, these are the things I hope will be achieved this year.
I vision terrorism completely gone as if it never was; I see
it completely wiped out from existence.
I vision wars ending and countries that have tension between
them like Palestine and Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran, South and North Korea,
United States and Russia to be best friends.
I vision all the help given to poor countries in Africa and
the world be helping them make a real economic rise and not just providing for
the urgent current food and shelter needs.
I vision everyone more loving and tolerant and accepting to
one another even their enemy. I’m sorry did I say “enemy”? I meant fellow
human.
I vision everyone at least living comfortably and not
struggling to provide for themselves and their families.
I’m sure we all want those things I just mentioned above and
I believe it’s possible, we just have to start with ourselves like Gandhi said:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” so if we want love and
acceptance, we must be loving and accepting to one another first even if the
other is doing something our religion or culture or political view does not agree
with. If we want compassion, we must be compassionate first. If we want
respect, we must be respectful of other people and their beliefs first. If we
want kindness, we must be kind first…etc. I believe these are the building
blocks of world peace, we cannot expect peace if we do not BE these
things first and not just by words but also by thought and feeling; we must
think of each other lovingly.
There are two world events happening this year: The FIFA
World Cup in Russia, and The PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic games in
South Korea. Both of these two events, despite being sports events, they are
mainly promotions of peace and many countries participate in them including
countries that are at war or have tension between them. We will start with
PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic games on February 9th
which made Peace its theme and I’m excited to see the opening ceremony to see
how they would express peace in their performances. I really hope these two
events encourage us to start a peace wave that will reach the entire world.
In the end, I will leave you with this beautiful video about
PyeongChang Olympics that literally made me shed tears. It’s a must watch J
