There’s one thing I could proudly tell about myself: I’m passionate about Nature’s wonders.
That’s why I went to study Ecology and Environmental Protection in college. That’s why I read as many books and participated in as many project as I could. My mind was preoccupied with finding the solutions to problems like pollution and loss of biodiversity and natural resources.
I used to see only the bad part: the ugly gray city, devastated forests and littered villages. Things going from bad to worse.
Until I realized that there must be a balance.
The mindset that I got into all those years told me that the world was splitted in two: one side was Nature and the other side was Man.
I kept looking at Nature but I didn’t look around myself. And when I did look around, I saw the greatest waste of all, the one that produced the huge costs on Nature.
That’s the waste of human potential.
I know so many intelligent people, girls especially, who buried their God-given gift because their parents or teachers told them they shouldn’t be smart and creative…
A person like this could find a cure for AIDS.
I know so many talented people who chose a different career because that’s why others do… Depriving the world of their potential and offering instead what the majority can offer.
A person like this could bring happiness in people’s hearts.
I know so many lively and enthusiastic young people who were drowned in the sea of negativism and pulled back by the others…
A person like this could become a modern-day hero.
I know so many sensitive people — but since kids they weren’t perceived as “real men” and discouraged to express and strengthen their peaceful side.
A person like this could become a peace-maker.
Mouths to feed? I think it’s possible to feed all the poor of this world. Just think about redirecting military expenses to charity, international volunteering. Training and hiring professional peace-makers: negotiators, problem- and conflict- solvers. Still the greatest force that drives this world is — I think — fear.
I think that the mouths could be fed. But this also means making the people lose their dignity.
Feeding their minds so they could work changes the problem.
What about the minds to feed?
11 octombrie 2007 at 12:20 pm
I think that school and the educational system in general is, today, the most ferocious killer of the human potential.
11 octombrie 2007 at 1:14 pm
About peacekeeping… According to Worldwatch, in 2002, the world spent $943 billion on military expenditures, while the United Nations spent only $2,82 billion on peacekeeping.
You said that you think that fear is still leading the world today. Well, I think the leader is just plain stupidity.
12 octombrie 2007 at 3:36 pm
Thank you, dear Mad! Please check http://www.upeace.org/about/ – It’s about UN’s University for Peace located in Costa Rica — the first country to abolish its army by law. I’d like to go there.
12 octombrie 2007 at 3:56 pm
About your first comment my dear Măd, you’re right when thinking about the peak of a person’s potential — with all engines running. But school is a good thing, especially to girls and I thank God a thousand times for letting me live here and now… I’d gladly offer an old-fashioned school to the children who don’t have any…