Lim JiaHao, age 16, Malaysia.

2015 Commonwealth Essay Competition

Time is ticking, some are improving, some are regressing,
because of their attitudes. Obviously, everyone loves to
see beautiful changes around, because we pursue an
easy yet perfect life. But, there are lots of things to be
corrected to achieve a perfect life . And from here, we will
start to have hope for the changes we want, and start to
realize more about the world, ourselves either.
Everyone knows, our environment cleanliness is
deteriorating, at the border of danger. First of all, I hope
that air pollution around the world will be cured one day
as it leads to water and land pollution. In Beijing, we
could hardly see the structure of Tiananmen Square at
nearby, it is caused by the haze. Based on research,
theres less than 1% of Chinas population breathe clean
air and this issue killed estimately 350000-500000 of
them per year. Not only so, air pollution contributed to
the increase of temperature. Next, iceberg will melt, the
animals such as penguins lose their habitat, sea level
rise, and then flood. Therefore, I strongly hope that
people around the world will start to have awareness
about the environment. At the same time, scientists could
pay their effort to overcome this issue by reducing Earths
temperature, bringing everything back to normal.
Recently, we hear a lot of slavery and racism cases from
the news, maybe from the surrounding even. By the way,
this concept must be perished since a long time ago as

everyone is built equally by our God. We are built to serve

the world, make it a better place to live. But, caste
system still exists in many undeveloped country or rising
country. This is an utterly pathetic scene. Caste system is
defined as discrimination of people into several groups of
positions. Therefore, those people that are considered as
slave must work for the high position individual without
dignity. These people are often treated badly by the
others as they are think as unholy. In some places, they
are restricted to marry others and even entering temples.
I hope that the government in every country will reinforce
fair based education, social programme to prevent the
break out of Caste System, which brings cruelty and lost
of dignity to others.
These days, we received lots of news about ethnic
conflict, too. The example is the race extremist urged his
own race not to purchase any goods from the Chinese
businessman. The reason is because the extremist
stereotyped Chinese as cunning and self-centered race
who often cheat peoples money with illegal ways.
Obviously, this is not a true statement as we cant judge
people by their skin colour and family background. This
issue caused high tension between Chinese and the race.
Thus, the relationship between Chinese and the race
gone bad and slowly affect the name of the country. I
hope that one day, the society will stand against racism
through appropriate education and gradually change
everyones mindset.

Society has changed, the old fade, the young rise. This
means concept and things must be changed from time to
time. The young ones always emphasis FREEDOM OF
SPEECH . But, most of the countries leaders do not allow
anyone to mock about the flaws of the country. Theres a
Chinese phrase known as If you dont want anyone to
realize your faulty, then dont do it . This is actually true.
This is because if the world doesnt have freedom of
speech, people will not know what is actually going on
around the world. Thus, I hope that all countries allow
people to have the right to speak their own mind, to let
the government to understand the dissatisfaction of the
citizens thus correct their faulty from there. As the
responsibility of a country leader is to construct a better
country to benefit the citizens.
As everyone knows, many countries have nuclear
resources. Some small countries such as Japan benefit
the nuclear resources by generating it as a source of
electricity power. But, as technology improves, the
discovery of new stuffs, some countries have misused
nuclear to create havoc . Weapons created wars, wars
created hates, hates created anger, anger creates
suffering. For a zero problem world, country leader are
supposed to solve any conflicts via discussion. Therefore,
I hope to see nuclear weapon to be used in the right way
for a brighter future.
For myself, I am going to be 31 years old in 2030. It is the
time for me to have a job, to be myself and have a real
life. As I am a person who appreciate art, photography,

travelling and wish to meet people with deep insight. I

wish I could be a freelance photographer in the future.
The reason is because I can get the opportunity to travel
around the world to do my job. Every time during my
travel, I tend to observe my surrounding to capture many
nice shots. This makes me to see more wonderful scenes
and people than the others. For me, theres no point for
me to keep working at the same place such as office as
we cannot enjoy ourselves. From everyones photos, I can
see different value and the persons attitude. Some are
artistic, some are brave, some are perfectionists etc. My
life objective is to be an extraordinary person, not to gain
wealth and fame, which often drive people into madness.
Besides that, I wish to spread the essence of the world
via photo and words to deliver a positive message. Lets
think about this, what can we do with the high amount of
money? Can we use it to buy happiness and wisdom? No.
Can we bring all the money with us together once we had
passed away? No. As a conclusion, money is not a
necessity.
In a nutshell, I wish to see positive changes around the
world in 2030. Of course, we shouldnt expect everything
we want to happen in front of us, as this world has both
good and evil side. The power of injustice cant be
destroyed; it can be reduced, only. Anyway, I wish the
society will stand up to voice their opinion and do their
part to contribute to the world.