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Abolade Durojaiye
NigeriaGALLERYCONVERSATION
The world is this huge place made up of one family of people who are richer than they know. We have family members all over the world who are very rich in different cultures and languages. We war over our differences instead of celebrating them and in so doing we miss the fact that we are one big family.

The world always stops to watch and participate in anything that brings us together like the Olympics, but we enjoy it for a season and return to our normal way of life once it is over. If we could only continue living in the spirit of the Olympics, where we celebrate one another, our world would be so much better and enjoyable to live in. It is not the grandeur of the Olympics that makes it so great, but the spirit of brotherly love that we all exemplify during the games.

We must ask ourselves what we want out of life, and we must create and take advantage of opportunities that will enable us achieve our dreams. I see myself as a woman who will always strive to excel in everything I do. I see every experience as a learning experience. There are no bad experiences in my life, just opportunities to learn and grow. I lost my father the year I turned seventeen and was sent to the United States to go to school. However, the family I was sent to stay with decided that they preferred for me to cook and clean and didn’t register me in school. I was finally allowed to work outside the home once the kids were sent off to school, and this was the first time I tasted freedom. I registered in the nearest University and worked hard to do well. I tried my best to stay focused, but would get busy being young, free and single, and would spend time with my friends. When it seemed like spending time with my friends was overshadowing my studies, I went to visit a cousin of mine, who helped me settle down in a University and in their home.

Armed with a caring family, I was free to soar and once again excelled in school while working three jobs to be able to pay for school and eventually pay for my own place. I was fortunate to be selected as a student ambassador for my university at the Leadershape Institute in Champagne, Illinois. I was selected to read a poem to the entire group of about one hundred and twenty participants.

I am now a wife and a mother of two very young sons. I am thankful for my family, and thankful for the opportunity to be able to give anything I can to make this world a better place for my children to grow up in, and for my husband and I to grow old together in. I once heard that the more you know the more you owe. I believe I owe it to myself, and ultimately the world, to live my best life. I owe it to myself to be true to who I am and who I was made to be.
This generation has forgotten that it is our innate wealth of talents that make us all unique. It is that essence that makes it impossible for us to have similar fingerprints. It is this same essence that makes us wealthy. This generation focuses more on what we can spend and not on what we can invest. We forget that we must invest in our very lives, finances, time, and other valuable assets, in order to be able to live fulfilled lives. The information age has revolutionized the world. This generation has had the opportunity of growing up with the world-wide-web.

Without the sweat of those before us, some of the things we take for granted, such as the ability to email our friends around the world, wouldn’t have been available. They were able to invest in research and development to make the world better for my generation. We can in turn use our resources wisely by investing our gifts and talents in the future of those coming behind us, instead of spending everything we have on ourselves.
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Sol Liyuny Zavala Jaimes (Venezuela)
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Sol Liyuny Zavala Jaimes (Venezuela)
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Sol Zavala . Venezuela (Venezuela)
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Jennifer Helmer (United States)
Knowledge is power. Even if you choose not to use it, no one can take it away from you. The Olympics is a good cultural connecting event that shows the strenghths of men and women from every country. Everyone is unique and different, but people making war out of their differences instead of growing and learning from each other is a sign of fear of change and acceptance of those that are different.
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