Do you know Pope John Paul II? Of course you do. Who would not know the most loved Pope in the history of Christianity?! I don’t know with you, but, isn’t he so likable? He’s like someone who you really want to be your father. He’s like someone who would be a perfect friend. He’s like someone who would be a perfect mentor. He’s someone who, even if you really don’t know, you really feel like hugging. If you don’t feel the same way to him and if that’s Pope John Paul II for me, do you know someone who you see the same way? Have you thought of someone? If you have, I want to ask. Have you ever seen your peers or younger people the same way? Have you ever consider that one of them might just be like that great person? Perhaps your answer is yes. If that’s the case I admire you. Or, was it no? Why? Is it because you see them sinning every now and then? Don’t you think great persons commit sin too? Or is it because you just don’t want to accept that someone can be better than you, especially someone close to your age or even younger? Don’t you think it is possible that one of your peers is about to be that great person? I don’t mean to degrade any “great” person, saying that they may have been someone like our peers some time in the past. It’s the other way around. Our peers can really be great persons tomorrow. They shouldn’t be pulled down. There are many reasons why people pull others down. Some of the reasons are their being stubborn and having overbearing pride to change for their betterment. These are the persons who unconsciously or even consciously chose to be stagnant and so, to be the best, they pull people down instead of doing something to improve their selves. Sad isn’t it? And, do you know the saying; First impression lasts? I think most of those who believe and practice that saying, also, hinder people from being that great person that they can be. I think these people even make others think that changing for one’s betterment is bad. They make others have a false conception that changing, even for their betterment, is changing who they really are. This is just one of the reasons why many of the evil things in this world are just not decreasing. This is just one of the reasons why there are very few great persons in this world. We all want this world to be a better world right? Then let’s encourage our peers in changing to be better…let’s change ourselves, because, after all, the betterment of this world doesn’t depend on the trees or animals, but, it is up to us human beings. Let’s learn to accept that others can be better than us. It’s alright. Let’s see their good things at least equally with their bad things. Let’s make them feel that we appreciate the good things they do and in the same extent let’s make them feel that we don’t appreciate them every time they do evil things. Of course let’s do the same thing to ourselves every time we do something good or bad. Let’s be great persons, besides because, like what Spiderman’s aunt said, there’s a hero in every one of us… ;)… Let’s all be great persons, for the reason that we can.
