Mein Schmerz

Heute: How to hope in despair

Hallo ihr alle. Ich weiß es ist auf englisch aber es war eine Hausaufgaben von meinem Englischlehrer und ich wollte es mit euch teilen, da ich eigentlich sehr zufrieden damit bin. Sobald ich das Thema gefunden habe, floss es naturell aus mir hinaus und deshalb bin ich auch sehr stolz darauf. Ich habe mir auch gedacht, dass es auch sehr gut hier hin passt. Eigentlich ist es ein mündlicher Vortrag aber lesen kann man ihn auch sehr gut. 

Viel Spaß

Hello everybody, we are all part of today's society. We are the youth of the next generation and I don't know if you can imagine how often I heard from people like you and me the sentence: "Nothing in this world has a sense and there is nothing we can do to change anything about it."

Can you imagine how hopeless these sentences made me feel? I'm like those people. I had same thoughts and same speeches about the world and our society. I understand everybody who thinks this way. However, I know that we all know that's not true. You do know that we can do something to change the world, right?

Anyways I'm not here to talk to you about, if we can change something about it or not. I wanted to talk with you about this despair we seem to all feel in some way.

We see around ourselves, see the people around us, see our life's and see how the time goes by. We seem to have no control over anything and we seem to never be really happy and this already at the age of 15, 16, 17 and so on. We are too young to feel this way. It's maybe because our problems are so heavy on our shoulders. Everyone is expecting from us to save the planet and to be happy and have a fulfilled life but we look around us and don't know how to do that. We have no example which could lead us in the problems of today.

Let me tell you something. I have to say that I do believe that our social deficiencies are the cause of all of our despairs. Humans are made to be in a group and nowadays it's getting harder to be part of one group because of bad communication.

So, believe me when I tell you that we have overall the obligation to learn how to correctly interact and communicate with each other. This will immensely help us to change society and then to save our world. Because we don't have to save the world on our own.

To finish about our despair, I just wanted to point another thing out. It might sound very rude and I apologize for it in advance. Do not believe that I think I'm better then you, because I'm not. I feel the same as you. So, when I felt this despair and thought that everything was hopeless and the only thing that really will matter for me is my death, I fought about all the victims of genocides in the world, about all the incarcerated persons of the second world war and refugee camps burning. Some of them survived even thought they had all the rights to be hopeless and let themselves die. They had some really good reasons to give up and in comparison, I have to say we don't have any reason to give up and be this hopeless.

At least that's how I do it. That's how I survive and stay a little bit with hope. That's how I look in the mirror and smile even though my brain tells me that there is nothing really to smile about in the world.

But I smile and I am optimistic, even thought nobody would call me optimistic. In relation with my pessimistic thoughts I am really optimistic in my attitude.

And I know, people, it sounds a bit cheesy yes, but maybe it works for you too.