REGARDING THE SOUL
LOVE CHANGES 'EPHEMERAL' INTO 'ETERNAL'

By Teodora Mihoc
(Age 15, Romania)

Human society has always been in evolution. By saying this, I don't mean only physical and material evolution, but also the evolution of the soul. I want to draw attention to the difference between the first two kinds of evolution and the last one. Physical and material progress can be continued through the generations. It started several million years ago and it still goes on. However the evolution of the soul is a special progress that each person has to begin individually. In this case, one has to choose for oneself the best solution.

I have to express my hopes and dreams for myself and for the world, but I have the same message for both, because the whole world and I are all human beings.

The whole world is so large that I really have to analyze it step by step. I feel that something is missing and I want to find the piece that fills the empty space. Nowadays, society has lots of qualities: so much intelligence and so many scientific and technical achievements. It has reached an amazingly high level on the scale of progress. People live in a much more comfortable way now than in the past; they have increased in knowledge, and have such interesting and smart concepts about things in the world and about existence, that it is very hard indeed to comprehend them all in one's mind.

However there are also lots of defects: huge poverty, starvation, lots of wars and murders, and plenty of wrongdoing. The list can continue for hundreds of pages and still come to no end. But this is only one of the aspects of the world: the social state. This is based on material things. There are so many defects in the world because people don't care about each other, because so many of them look for perfect happiness on earth. Most of them don't have any idea about what life means for them. Most of them have never tried to find a reason for this earthly life. They have their ephemeral things that create an ephemeral state of comfort for their ephemeral bodies. For them, love means a carnal and ephemeral desire of their bodies and minds, life is a space where they make a lot of fuss about almost nothing and, after all that, they have to die. Most of them have no God, no principles, and no values for good and evil. People do not see the need for true love and compassion. Human beings have come to think that selfishness and possessiveness are their natural rights. The world appears to be making incessant progress that proclaims the value of the human being. But, as it seems, it only proclaims the qualities of an animal that is able to think, an evolving animal with an amazingly developed mind. The soul can create space for the mind, but the mind cannot do the same for the soul. That is what the world shows us.

I wish that people would realize their need for God. I wish they would see how much love can bring them. In my opinion, every problem of the world can be solved by true love between people. I wish people would love each other in the noblest way. This is what I wish for them, this is what I wish for me. But as love needs no plans, I don't know how I will ever reach my aim. But if it ever happens, I will really be able to call myself and the whole world "happy".