Children’s Category 2nd Prize

WITH RESPECT TO LIFE

by Nia Valentinova Neykova
Bulgaria, Age 12

The life is the most valuable gift for the man and we have to love and respect it. There are people who do not learn how to live completely all their life. They simply do not love the life or maybe they think that the man has some lives and they could live the present one like this and the others - otherwise. The man creates his complete life by himself in his own environment. The life is like a fairy tale in which the main character is the man himself. The people fortune could not be changed but people could adapt to it and so to create their life for future. The fortune is a strange thing, it offers to us a lot of ups and downs of life, it puts under test our feelings - one of these feelings is the love to the life.

Now I will tell you about two real cases with friends of mine. In these cases the different man's attitude to the life appears very clearly. The first case is with my cousin Christo. When he was doing his military service, he was cleaning his gun. He made an incorrect movement and he shot through his stomach. The doctors fought day by day for his life. The chance for being alive was very little but they did the impossible and saved his life. The joy of my aunt and uncle was huge all the more that their other son was blind and this is a big sorrow for every parent.

After that heavy accident, even my cousin's life was saved, as a consequence of the heavy wounds a lot of his internal organs were injured or removed. Because of this he could work anything. Maybe this was the reason that pushed him to drugs. We know that after the first attempt there is a second one and he became addicted to them. He did not help at home and every day he caused a new trouble for his family.

Instead of having joy that he had the chance to live, he could not appreciate this chance and he continued playing with his life. It is true he had the chance for surviving but will he have it for second time again?

His will for stopping is very weak, his body also and no one knows how long it will endure this poison.

The other case is with a friend of mine. His name is Svetlan. As a teenager he was a climber. There was a competition and an accident happened - he fell down badly and his legs were paralyzed. Since then he used a wheelchair. He succeeded in overcoming this big trouble and to say to himself that the life went on. He finished school and he worked all the time. He played again different sports - table tennis, wheelchair basketball. He simply liked the life. He is a radiant person, very intelligent and with a great sense of humor.

I told you about these two cases for making the difference between the people who love and who do not love the life, who respect and who do not respect it. When the man does not respect the life, he does not respect himself and the people around him.

The harmony between the people could exist only the life is respected. Not only the own one but of all human beings. It is a pity but this does not exist everywhere. There are people who are in harmony with no one and nothing.

Sometimes the animals are capable to make bigger harmony. The people have to be in harmony with all - people, plants and animals, so their life will be easier and more pleasant.

I think we have to live complete life. We live once and this life has to be in harmony with all. We have to be happy now and we have to live, as we want to live in future. The life is wanted and we have to respect it.