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Do you think it is boring?
Do you really feel I am engaged with the idea presented?
Thank you in advance. :)
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Stanford students are widely known to possess a sense of intellectual vitality. Tell us about an idea or an experience you have had that you find intellectually engaging.
Looking at the blue and white of my flag waving in my hands and in the hands of three of my friends, in front of many other delegates from different countries, my mind was invaded with many images which made me remember El Salvador, my people, our situation. Images of our daily life: children selling candies or cleaning cars in traffic lights, complete families sleeping under a bridge, murders, crimes and extortions which affirm once again that El Salvador is the country with highest level of violence in the region. In that moment I thought: what do other countries have? What do they do that make them flourish and that we donït do? I was there, standing on the stage, happy to represent my country in a Math competition where we had the honor to get seventh place among Iberoamerica, and I thought why our country canït compete in other aspects as lowest level of poverty, or violence, good level of economy or tourism or other things that make other countries better than ours. Maybe I am not able yet to answer these questions fully, but after long meditation, I reached some conclusions: It is us, the new generation, who have the big challenge to transform our country, to make it a better place to live. In order to do that, one word came to my mind: LOVE. Whatever we want to do, we must to do it with love. After all, is love for my country what made me think in all those images that day, is love what make people to live in peace, to care about others, to pursue a safer world, where everybody has opportunity of development and where human rights are respected. Love is the key word. Now that I am asked about an engaging idea, I can say nothing engages me more than that: the improvement of my country and the usage of love as a weapon to change my country and thus the world.
Do you think it is boring?
Do you really feel I am engaged with the idea presented?
Thank you in advance. :)
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Stanford students are widely known to possess a sense of intellectual vitality. Tell us about an idea or an experience you have had that you find intellectually engaging.
Looking at the blue and white of my flag waving in my hands and in the hands of three of my friends, in front of many other delegates from different countries, my mind was invaded with many images which made me remember El Salvador, my people, our situation. Images of our daily life: children selling candies or cleaning cars in traffic lights, complete families sleeping under a bridge, murders, crimes and extortions which affirm once again that El Salvador is the country with highest level of violence in the region. In that moment I thought: what do other countries have? What do they do that make them flourish and that we donït do? I was there, standing on the stage, happy to represent my country in a Math competition where we had the honor to get seventh place among Iberoamerica, and I thought why our country canït compete in other aspects as lowest level of poverty, or violence, good level of economy or tourism or other things that make other countries better than ours. Maybe I am not able yet to answer these questions fully, but after long meditation, I reached some conclusions: It is us, the new generation, who have the big challenge to transform our country, to make it a better place to live. In order to do that, one word came to my mind: LOVE. Whatever we want to do, we must to do it with love. After all, is love for my country what made me think in all those images that day, is love what make people to live in peace, to care about others, to pursue a safer world, where everybody has opportunity of development and where human rights are respected. Love is the key word. Now that I am asked about an engaging idea, I can say nothing engages me more than that: the improvement of my country and the usage of love as a weapon to change my country and thus the world.
