Daring to Hope for a Peaceful Tomorrow

          For the longest time I couldn't decide where I wanted to work. Of the massive number of options that one can choose how is a person supposed to pick just one job? For me I have finally discovered what inspires me the most. I want to work in international affairs. My wish is to work in a government office where I can impact the decisions made on how to deal with the affairs of the nations around the globe.

          Of the hundreds of movies there are only two that have ever made me cry. The first time I ever cried over a movie I was watching a documentary about Anne Frank. I was flipping through the channels on the television and caught a clip of the film and decided to watch it. Watching the movie I realized what it was about and at the time I had heard of Anne Frank but didn’t really know exactly who she was so I kept watching out of curiosity. By the end of the film I was uncontrollably sobbing. I remember my throat constricting as I choked out the words to my mom, “How can some one do something like that? How can a person hate some one so much…?” From there my passion has been ignited. I have since watched Hotel Rwanda which has only furthered to my passion to halt hate.

          My aim is not to assert a specific government on any people but only to bring a liberating government to the all peoples of the world. I hope to bring peace to an upside down world. While I know this world is far short of ever being perfect, this world can undergo many improvements. Around the world there are people being persecuted or wrongly murdered everyday.

          These people need some one to stand up for them and their rights as human beings. In WWII, a quicker intervention would have saved the lives of millions of innocent people. After WWII the world promised to never forget the lessons of the Holocaust. Recently in Rwanda, genocide occurred again, killing 800,000 people. This onslaught could have been stopped if the UN or a government would have intervened. But the UN did not intervene because they decided that the current mass murders of thousands of people did not fit the definition of genocide. By working for the government I will be able to have a say in what happens to thousands of people. I will not be afraid to call a situation by its true name.

          When I obtain my job after college, hence the need of money, I can start an active campaign to bring about intervention for peace and aid to those that need it. I plan to lobby to congress and pass new bills, bills that will provide funding and supplies to people or countries in need. I plan to travel abroad and delegate meetings with foreign nations. These meetings or conferences will consist of negotiations and stratagems for peace. I wish to promote peaceful solutions to warring nations. While some times I know that war has to happen, there are many times when it can be avoided by undermining blind hate. This is what I want to do. World wide peace may be too much for just one person, but it starts with one, and I want to help. In the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction, that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

          I am determined that when the time comes that if genocide occurs I will intervene.  I will make a difference and a difference for the better.