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Creating the future we want
Tariro Musiringofa, United Children of Africa (UNICA)
July 06, 2012

I envision a world with peace and harmony, where enemies chat, meet and dine together. Greed has resulted in the fights and hatred among people. "Everything should be mine", is the spirit that has destroyed our world. I foresee a world where the poor and the rich become one, where the rich can humble themselves to be able to extend their hand to the poor. For goodness sake, why should one own mansions, billions of dollars, own half of the land when other people are homeless. Oh peace, peace in the world. This variance between the poor and the rich result into idol worshipping and perpetuate resource power against the poor. It can only mean that the rich will remain rich while the poor remain poorer.

What are nuclear plants for when the hungry remain hungry? The poor remain poorer? Where is love today? I envision a future where people are equal, enjoy their rights and earn respect for each other. People hurt each other due to racial differences but what difference do we have is the question. We think in the same manner, we eat from the same pot, we are brothers and sisters and so it is time we build a future were race becomes like the air we breathe which we do not ask ourselves what colour or shape it is. We just breathe and so we just have to love one another with respect and honour.

Why should we differentiate and say there are super powers and if ever there are minor powers and yet we are all people. It is prudent to have a colourful and equality in all our doings. A future with enough food for all, love, peace and harmony is what l desire. Super or not, the bottom line is we are all destined to death and why should we therefore neither kill nor hurt. Oh peace, peace in the world. Look at China and the United States of America, for goodness sake we have one environment, one ozone and one earth. Why should the whole world suffer for their refusal to cut down on green house gas emissions for the purposes of production. It is only because there are unknown fears that someone will take over and eventually become the world's giant but for what benefit will this have for the world? I envision a future where the environment is respected because it is not limited to countries as boundaries demarcated by men. There is no truth is this world. I foresee a future where the truth is told and respected. Oh yes, peace, peace in the world. A future where people will understand that all we embark on is just but in vain one day it comes to an end and therefore respecting humanity and God given wonders are paramount.

I do not believe there is anything like recession, in my view, it is an artificial depression caused by a few individuals to control the world. But why should this be when the world continues to suffer? The money we had 5 years ago is the same money still in rotation around the world? And so where has it gone today to be said there is serious recession? I envision a world with honest and people with a heart. A world in which the future is always put first and the future are the children. Where children are respected and protected. Where violence ends in dreams and never a reality. Where love, gender equity, peace, romance and roses glide from dreams to reality. Oh yes, peace, peace in the world.

I envision the day on which the word sorry regain its meaning, where revenge becomes a play station subject, where fire and hate has no room in the minds of the masses, where there are people and no lower, middle or upper class. I envision a future in which the people finally become the government, the government becoming the people. I foresee a future where every citizen of any nation is part and parcel of the army, where every citizen is responsible for their country and need for army recruitment vanishes. I desire a future where taekwondo, karate, kung-fu and boxing are meant for physical fitness or witnessed on play-station. What a future it will be!

I dream of a future where any human can smell democracy from any angle, where blood diamonds become as good as any other mineral, why blood over a piece of stone. It is all about greed.

Tariro Musiringofa
Age: 16
Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe

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