[MANNAM Heal the world] Rise of the MANNAM Guardians!

[MANNAM Heal the world] Rise of the MANNAM Guardians!

One rainy day, after deciding instead of picking trash in a rainy day, MANNAM friends choose to watch movie in the MANNAM office. Because it was a decision that was made in a moment everyone wondered what to watch. So MANNAM friends decide to watch the movie that people wanted to see on movie night before. The movie was “Rise of the Guardians.” Have you heard or saw it before?

Like the title Guardians is a person who guards stuff or people. Can you guess which characters that comes out of this movie? Like some people think, yes. There is Santa Clause and the sand man. Who else? You can find the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny also. The four Guardians live eternally helping children by giving them hope and joy. They survive because the children believe them that they exist. This is the source for them to live. And that is helping others without them knowing. In the movie there is also a boogie man that tries to make the children’s world in fear. So another Guardian gets selected to help the Guardians that was before. This is Jack Frost.

To defeat the evil and make a happy ending is the most common ending for an animation movie. This has made enlightenment for the audience. We learned a lot of things from the movie. To make people, especially the ones that are not close to you, happy by helping them is a thing that is worth of. In the movie, these kinds of works are the Guardians job. They do this because they were selected to help others. Why don’t we think that we, who are in MANNAM Volunteer Association was selected one by one to help others? Although we have our things to do, like study, work and teaching for our jobs but we can achieve helping others by volunteering and that can happen if we have hearts to do this. What if people don’t realize the work we do? It doesn’t matter because something special has already happened in our hearts and minds.

When Jack wanders why he was selected as a Guardian, Santa asks, “What is your center?” The special mind and heart that we each was chosen. At the end of the movie Jack finds out that it is helping others. We should have the same mind and though as him. And also I want to ask, “What is your center?”

MANNAM GW: Incoming Peace!(International Youth Walk for World Peace)

 I asked my friend from Iran once, “Do you like war?” He looked at me in an odd way and replied “Who would like war? If a war breaks out everyone dies. Like my Friends, families and people that I care.” What I realized from this conversation is that everyone hates war. It doesn’t matter if you are from Korea, England, or from Papua New Guinea. Everyone wants to avoid war. In other words, this means everyone wants Peace for what matter.

 To make this happen, Not only MANNAM volunteer association, but also many youth associations came together on May 25 in Seoul. What they shouted out was Peace. It didn’t matter weather you are Asian, American, or other races. Peace happened at that day. Because with the same heart and same mind, everyone became happy and felt peace in their heart. It was an amazing moment because many people gathered for one reason. This day, there were no war, no hatred against each other.

 And the walk that was happening in the area was different then other peace events, because every one of the people wrote that they want peace and declared this will happen by their hands. Everyone who joined the event wrote their signature that meant ‘I don’t want war.’

 At the same time, some people went to a festival to satisfy themselves. Some people went hiking to achieve their goal. But many shouted for a world with peace. Where were you? Think about the things I can do for peace. It is actually happening now. Will you be the person who helps? Or be a person who only looks away with their arms crossed. It depends on you.