Robert about
volunteering
“Watching
good quality films can be a life
inspiring experience” is something that our class teacher, Mrs Medan, tells us
whenever she has the opportunity. And now, that I had the chance “ to get
impressed”, I took it. I attended the volunteering activity organized with the
seniors in the “Rivulus Pueris “ Centre on 31st of March, to watch
together and to debate over the film “The book thief”. I had heard about it
before and I expected it to be a little “too educative” but, while watching it
I was hooked and I didn’t realized how
the time passed. Then, I was interested to find out what the others have to say,
what they found significant and inspiring.
Some opinions, expressed mostly by the elderly, got stacked into my
mind: the idea of reading as a form of surviving or the thought that Kindness
can be triumphant when people treasure
their supreme value – their humanity. Above all, I was touched by one of the
granny’s remarks about the film. She said that we can appreciate peace, quiet
and the happiness we have even better when we see this beautiful, sad film
which points out suffering and human solidarity in war time.
I wouldn’t have thought about all these if I had seen the film alone or, perhaps, I wouldn’t have seen it at all. All the better to be satisfied with my choice.