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Children’s Category 3nd Prize
MY VISION FOR THE FUTURE
By Dasha Nemchinova
(Age 14, Ukraine)
It is so good to be a child. Our carefree childhood doesn't make us think about problems, when everything is in bright colours, when our idols are cartoon characters. But the time comes, when we must not only think about our future, but also take care of it. My future is only my dreams, of course, but I'll do everything I canto realise them.
Now I studiously learn foreign languages, because I think my future will be directly connected with them. Of course the profession of translator, moreover very literate translator-is not the only dream I have. I hope that my future will be connected with acting. I always imagine myself on the stage of a great theatre or on a movie set, easily communicating with the world's great stars using a foreign language. My longing to follow this way stops me from dreaming about an easier job. Even some time ago I didn't think about my future. I liked everything what was happening around me. But when I became a little bit more adult, I began to understand, that everything is not so easy. There were a lot of fairy-tales in my childhood, but now everything is real. I know a lot about modern day problems. To my mind, the pollution of our planet-is the biggest and the most vital problem. I always think about it and I'm scared for myself and my planet. The gift of life is so wonderful, we live only once. Why won't we use this prodigy, given to us from God, in a good way, without causing illnesses, wars, terror and destruction? Of course, my future profession isn't connected with restoring clean air, but I'll try to help in solving this problem. I know, that I must protect nature, so I don’t throw papers from sweets or similar things on the street. I understand , it's a little drop in the ocean in comparison with the worlds pollution, but it means something! I'm sure, it’s not only me thinking about the ecological situation of our planet. The world organisation Greenpeace often annoys governments, companies, and people who don't care about the future of the world.
Unfortunately I don't have the chance to say: "People! Please stop! Think, what you are doing with us, with your generation!" But if I have such a chance, I won't reject it and I'll use it in a good way. It's my Earth, my future and the future of my children. Our ancestors made a lot of mistakes and worsened the ecology so we should help to correct all their mistakes. My acting abilities made me think about the role I need to play in this world. It will be a Soul of the Planet, frank and unprotected. The Soul, which will show mankind, how unfairly it uses the earth’s resources. The Soul, which can protect herself, by unleashing volcanic eruptions, waterspouts or tornadoes, yet which loves its children, endures all suffering and forgives everything, to make us remember our Earth. I want to act out my role in such a way, that I would make everybody believe and feel pleasant moments of love and also responsibility for their indifferences to their general mother Earth.
English-is an international language, so I want to act my role only in English. I want people to see my film and to think not only about themselves, and about their descendants. So if the ecological disaster doesn't threaten our planet, my future and also the future of the world is not so bad.
I think every new generation is born cleverer than its predecessors. I can judge about it by the development of science and technology. With such knowledge mankind can't stay in only one place. Perhaps mankind will find a way to stop the ozone holes, earthquakes and acid rain. Science, going ahead, must not only take care of the present, but it must also count every step forward.
We need everything natural, not artificial. After all, a natural sea is more beautiful than an artificial bay. Trees are more wonderful in forest, than in floral pots. In my dreams I see everything alive and beautiful, when every season is accompanied by corresponding climatic changes, when birds sing on flowering green branches, not in cages, when we don't have to include animals in a ''Red Book'' of disappearing species and not just admire them in museums because they are now extinct animals. In every generation there will be somebody, who will studiously take care of the surrounding world. My generation feels this need to care for the environment and strives to justify it. So, if my friends and I don't make mistakes, we won't let our planet die. I'm sure, it will be only this way.
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