Yuna Kim has been galloping toward her dream since she started figure skating in 1996 at the age of 7. She joined the 2010 Vancouver Olympics game, and won a gold medal.
She went through hard training since she was young and gave up the good times she could have enjoyed with her friends. Her family sacrificed and devoted their life for her. She overcame the expectation of others as well as the pressure involved. She had only been running forward with the goal of the Olympic gold medal for the majority of her life and her dream came true.
At one of her interviews, she confessed that she could hardly find a worthy goal as a figure skater after having achieved her life goal.
However, not only for herself but for her country, Korea,
For young figure skaters who set her as their role model and follow her path…
Yuna Kim made an official announcement that she would enter competition again in order to give the opportunities for young kids to be inspired to go into the ice rink, which had also been her dream. She began hard training, which was a seven-hour practice every day to participate in competition.
She also declared her return to the Olympics games.
While the training has been so tough that she didn’t even want to think of it, along with the heart-pounding and all sorts of emotions she felt during competition, she set a new goal which she had announced to the world,the reason why she continued figure skating was not only for herself anymore.
After the 2010 Olympics, Yuna Kim was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, as the youngest in world history. She has been given a new role for her life.
She started to participate in a variety of charitable works, such as shooting a video clip for Haiti earthquake survivors, and campaigning for Sahel famine relief and Syria. Every year, she visits children without parents and children with incurable diseases and sends contributions to charities. Last March, she generously contributed the entire prize for the world championship, $45,000. She also intends to participate in the relief activities directly after retirement.
“I want to use my own positive experience to help the children of Haiti and the millions of vulnerable children around the world,” said Yuna Kim. “Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.”
The very last gala program she presented was performed with John Lennon’s song Imagine sung by Avril Lavigne. The theme of this last stage performance before her retirement of the 2014 Olympics was peace.
“In this Gala program, ‘Imagine’, I emphasized the meaning and message of this song rather than figure skating skills or performance elements of the ice show,” said Yuna Kim. “I would like to share the meaning of this program with many people who wish for peace.”
Yuna Kim has found the real reason for figure skating. She looks more free and happy than her 2010 performance.
The real peace that we truly want…
The real world where everyone coexists rather than the world where they only care for themselves…
We are dreaming for such a world, aren’t we?
A New Age
From <Stop Living In This Land Go To The Everlasting World Of Happiness Live There Forever> by Woo Myung
Now is the age of the new heaven and earth,
when heaven, earth and man are saved and live,
and the consciousness of the world reaches its peak –
an era when all religions are transcended.
It is the age of man, when man is the highest:
When heaven and earth exist in man, inside man’s will,
and man lives as the master, accumulating blessings
and living within those blessings.
Each will become the master, a Buddha, a king, within himself.
He will become the master of the world and be without death,
without the heavy burden and pain of human affairs,
and without the judgment of good or bad, likes and dislikes.
The preconceptions and habits that man has,
are just his mind, his illusionary self,
but they do not exist in the world.
It is the age,
when one can go to heaven while he is living –
the heaven which until now he has only heard of;
when buddhas, saints and true people –
those beings we have only heard of –
come forth in great numbers;
when he who was dead inside his mind
becomes one who is living;
when resurrection and rebirth happens for man.
Until now, countless many have tried and failed to find
their true selves,
but now is the time, when anyone can find his true self and
become a saint.
Man was inside a dream and he was ignorant,
but it is now the age when he can know the ways of the world.
Now is the time
when all that has been spoken of is fulfilled;
when heaven and paradise we have dreamed of comes to pass.
A time when man no longer struggles to appease his feelings of inferiority,
and all people in the world become one;
a time when there are no divisions between nations
and everyone is one;
a time when religion, philosophy and ideology become one
and saints live working for the betterment of others;
a time when the sky has become low and within reach,
and people live in the sky, no longer feel inferior
and lack for nothing.
In other words, it has become a time beyond human
conceptions and behaviors;
a time of achieving completion when people do not die
after death,
but live forever;
a time when this world and the world beyond are not
separate but one;
a time of endless laughter;
a time when there are no songs of lamentation for the dead;
a time when man has wisdom and no thoughts or delusions,
a time when the world is a good place to live
because people are no longer foolish and work hard;
a time of the land of Buddha;
a time free of the seven emotions and five desires,
free from birth, aging, sickness and death;
a time when this place here on Earth is heaven;
a time of a humanitarian world living in harmony;
a time when all become one and live forever;
a time when one becomes God;
a time when one becomes Buddha;
a time when one lives with universal order;
A time without greed,
when no one thieves or robs
and people do not do each other harm.
In a time when we can live without the law,
we must discard the evil, selfish, human mind
and change it into the mind of God.
It is the time to live reborn in the land of God.
And it is already being actualized.
Our real dream is coming true.
