When Light meets Light there is Victory
This blog will save my memory with MANNAM.
As one of MANNAM members (MANNAMERs), I will post about my life with MANNAM.
Today's topic: MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10 km in their shoes (4)
4 postings about one topic, wow, it's really long! Isn’t it?
Today will be the last day of MIYC.
The last topic is the '10km in their shoes'!!!
What's the purpose of the 10km? Why MIYC prepare 10km?
Actually, this 10km event is not the first 10km event. Last April we also had 10km event in all branches. You can follow this YouTube and can watch the 10km of Gwangju MANNAM.
→ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23NoEX525-Q
On that day, not only Gwangju but also other 12 branches had 10km events at the same time.
Then, why the 10km event was made and what is the aim of the 10km event?
10km in their shoes was an awareness campaign. Holding the flags of the damaged countries (by war), people shouted the end of the war and world peace out. Through walking, participants were aware of the crises that the world faces now. The crises can be the war, climate change, disaster and dictatorship. (Especially this 10km event was made to oppose to the war.) It was a soundless movement toward the world. All participants walked wishing to show their strong supports to the anti-war movement and those who suffer from the ongoing war. 10km in their shoes was the starting point of MIYC. Through 10km event, MIYC began to act as a representative of many youth organizations working for world peace. It was a great step forward visible world peace.
'Is it possible to achieve world peace just by walking 10km?' People may think like this. However, if you think about the history again then you can find that all the victories of freedom were made through the revolution. Long time ago, people had to bleed during the revolution, but now people don't need to bleed (ok, I admit nowadays also people sometimes (or often) bleed for the freedom). Thanks to the development of media thing, we can easily share our hopes and thoughts with the people who have the same thoughts with us. In this case, people can gather through Internet (or SNS') and can move together even though they are apart from each other. Nowadays, it is possible to go revolution without blood.
10km event does not end as one day event. I don’t know the exact day but I heard that soon, 10km events will be held in all over the world. It started from one small country, Korea, but it will spread to the world. One candle can find another candle in the darkness. I think 10km event in Korea is the first lighted candle. And the light of the first candle spreads to the other ‘hidden’ candles. One light looks very small and people may be able to recognize it, but if the lights are put together, people can’t ignore it. It is the characteristic of the light. I think all the movements for world peace are like the candle.
It is the badge of MIYC.
We can get this badge after finishing the 10km (3km for us:P).
The mark in the middle is 'thumb prints!'
Don’t ignore the one weak candle.
It can burn the entire world.
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