What motivates me? I have many motivations. My motivation are my smaller siblings. I want to help engage my generation, and push it towards such a disruption in the unfair systematic oppression that is our government, that the only option is to completely change our country. I am a leftist - and the socio-economic issues of Latin American heartedly concern me, but I also recognize the poor distribution of wealth, and inequality in the United States and around my neighborhood. The World Can't Wait mission is just like mine regardless of wording " change the world". I want to change the world, but every step I take I want to alter that step and make it comfortable enough for anyone walking behind me to step forward and better themselves. Change, Change, Change is a word I commonly hear, but seldom put into action. Every political movement and revolution started with a person contemplating change. Nowadays, I read textbooks about politics and feed my mind a wealth of ideas, but how does this even help? Like I stated before, every revolution is the product of an idea, and I feel that the World Can't Wait mission is a mission that suitably coincides with my ideas - ideas the world can't wait for.
Yo, como tú, amo el amor, la vida, el dulce encanto de las cosas, el paisaje celeste de los días de enero. También mi sangre bulle y río por los ojos que han conocido el brote de las lágrimas. Creo que el mundo es bello, que la poesía es como el pan, de todos. Y que mis venas no terminan en mí sino en la sangre unánime de los que luchan por la vida, el amor, las cosas, el paisaje y el pan, la poesía de todos.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
"What motivates me" excerpt from essay for internship
Labels:
activism,
change,
compassion,
leftist,
marxist,
passion,
poetry,
political,
revolution,
world can't wait,
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