My Dreams and Goals

Being brought up in a family that strongly believes in compassion and respect to other living beings, I developed an early love for animals. Like any other child, I was unaware of actions that cause pain to others. I still remember the incident when I hit a small chick and my father came rushing out. He then gave me a long lecture about how animals can also feel pain, love, loneliness, compassion and basically every other emotion a human is capable of feeling. It was then that I realized the gravity of my action on the chick.

I believe in the saying that animals are not ours to kill, eat or torture. What I need from my life is to see a world that is more tolerant and compassionate towards animals. Just because they do not express pain in any of the languages we understand it doesn’t mean we can harm them. We can still see the pain through its actions; after all, whether or not we know Malay or Swahili, we can still understand the expression of pain, can’t we? What bothers me the most is the lack of human sensitivity towards animals.

What I am really inclined to do is to spread awareness about animal welfare. It is not possible to eliminate harm, but we can definitely minimize it. However long it takes, I will definitely involve myself in actively educating and spreading awareness and making people more sensitive towards animal welfare. I am already a member of PeTA and other animal welfare organizations. The fact that I feel strongly towards a cause fuels me to work towards it. I always wondered what I will make of my life when I grew up, but now I have a cause to work for and it is something that I feel passionately about.

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