Warriors without Weapons

Welcome to Unit 8! 

´´ Warriors without Weapons´´

This unit has a very important topic. We usually tend to relate Warrior to the fighting context.  However, during the study of this chapter  we realized that we can be a warriors, fight for a good cause, and win it without the necessity of using a gum, hit or kill someone.

Thanks to the  hard work that many different organizations are making nowadays, many people are being saved.  The purpose of these organizations is not to make money of this situation. In fact. the  main idea is to offer assistance and  volunteer to cover other people's necessities.

  

Now allow me to tell you about my experience being a Warrior without weapons:

When I was a child I wanted to be a Doctor because as I had some healthy issues as a kid, I used to visit my Doctor very often.  

The thing is that I always observed how happy the Doctor was when she had a patient. One day, I asked my Doctor if she was not afraid of getting sick by getting in touch with so many sick people. Smiling, she looked at me and told me that every time she  helps someone she gets an unexplainable feeling of happiness. I asked how that was possible. She said: ´´Because when someone is happy for my assistance, that favor becomes happiness to me´´

I was very inspired by those words and since that moment I had the desire to help others.

So, when I was 17 years old,  I participated in a Catholic Youth  Mission, which consisted on going to a poor community to share and live with them for some weeks. The purpose of the Mission was to create new strategies to get teenagers out of the delinquency and the street problems.

This experience had a impact in my life because at the beginning it was very difficult for me to get along with the guys since they didn't like our ideals, and found our project stupid and useless.

To make the story shorter, we arrived to the conclusion that we needed to find a way for  them to  realize that there were other opportunities in life, like studying or working together. So we created a summer camp for the teenagers. There they played joyfull games, practiced different sports, had a lot of fun, and the best part is that we caught that time to work with them the areas that we wanted to cever. At the end we taught them how to become leaders in their community, the importance of teamwork, and the consequences that the street life can  bring to their life if they didn't make a stop in their life to think about their future. Fortunately we had great results. those guys who were not studying, after that summer camp, they went to school the following year, and they created social groups to make their community a better place to live.

In conclusion, that story is an example of a Warrior without Weapons because we didn't need to use violence to make concience on those teenagers. On the other hand, we found strategies to have them think about it and realize that in life they can achieve everything they work for. And the best thing is that when I saw those teenagers making a change in their life, I felt the happiness that my Doctor was talking about. 

Thanks!

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
– Victor Hugo