One beautiful message for the world

Several weeks ago, we watched a video in Spanish that really touched me. It affected me so much that today, sitting in my bed, writing my journals, I still remember this video. So I thought I would share it with you. And for you, non-Spanish folks, yes, it is in Spanish but there are subtitles so you will be able to understand.
Enjoy!



So, What do you think about this video?
I think this video has a beautiful message that each and everyone of us should try to apply everyday: help each other. Life is already hard enough the way it is so if we can help each other in order to make it even slightly better, it is worth it. And like the man in the video, our actions do not need to be extraordinarily exceptional to be powerful. The smallest gesture can bring happiness and comfort to someone. So, IB students, men, women and children of the world, gear up because it is time to make the world a better place! And just look around you; there are plenty of things to improve or people to help. And yes, we all have our own problems, preoccupations and doubts but if we just put them aside for one second and use this second to help someone else and if everyone does so, the world will soon become a better place.

What outrages me

I consider myself a pretty open-minded and tolerant person but there are certain things I cannot stand. The first thing that probably outrages me the most is injustice. I just cannot stand when someone get something he or she did not deserve or when wrong is done to someone for unjustified reasons (not that I am implying that it is okay to wrong someone even with reason to back it up). When in a situation that I consider unfair, I usually talk about my concerns to someone who has the possibility to make the situation fairer, such as an authority figure that I thrust will act. One other thing that particularly outrages me is narrow-mindedness and intolerance. When I moved, my adaptation was made harder by people who did not realize the difficulties I had or just did not want to reach out to help me. That is when I became aware of how important it is to be surrounded by open-minded people who understand the difficulties you can be going through and do not hesitate to help. On a more practical level, I cannot stand when people purposefully deteriorate the environment by throwing trashes in the street. Seriously people, can’t you just wait to find a trashcan and throw your trash in it? Is that really too hard for you? So, when I see litters in the street, I usually pick them up and wait for the closest litterbin to throw them in.

What idea challenges me the most

Recently, someone asked me what idea most challenges me. I have to admit that I had to think for quite a while to come up with an answer that truly reflects who I am and what I think. What would you have answered? Not easy, right? I thought about what I really like and what is important to me. Since I was young I wanted to become a doctor. To me, medicine was the one way to allow people who had a car accident or were diagnosed with a disease to live long and happy lives. I thought that medicine could cure every wound and avoid pain and misery to spread. However, as I grew up I realized that the world had too many incurable wounds that all the medicine could never make them go away. I realized that civil wars, misery, pain, poverty and cruelty would always exist. Then we learned at school the atrocities that happened during World War II. But what we were not taught at school is that similar atrocities are still happening everyday in some developing countries in Africa where civil wars are raging. So I suppose the idea that challenges me the most is to become a doctor and work in a refugee camp in a developing and try to avoid as much as I can the wounds to bleed, the pain to paralyze and the misery to spread and, by doing that, I would little by little begin to cure the world.