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2 What action can I take as an individual In the story on the previous pages Saki makes a decision to live his life by the set of new values he has adopted, showing a new commitment to perseverance and responsibility. He keeps looking for a job and refuses to get involved in crime again. He takes action every day for good in his own life. Take notice of when you feel strongly about something. This will help you see what action you need to take to make good values part of your life. For Saki, it was surviving the beating he was given by prison warders that triggered his decision to change. For Peter Benenson, it was a story he read in a newspaper. Peter Benenson was a lawyer living in London in 1960. On his way to work on the underground one morning, he read a newspaper article about two Portuguese students who had been sentenced to seven years in prison for toasting freedom in a Lisbon café. This was during the rule of the dictator Antonio Salazar. Benenson was so angry that instead of going straight to work as he came off the underground train, he went into a nearby church. He sat there for some time to think about what he had read. While sitting there, he came up with the idea of trying to free prisoners of conscience by organising letter-writing campaigns. He wrote an article for a newspaper and invited readers to write letters about the many prisoners of conscience who were imprisoned around the world at the time. This was the beginning of the biggest human rights organisation in the world, Amnesty International, which now has nearly two million members worldwide. 16 We all have moments in our lives, like Saki and Peter, when we see what values are important to us. The thing is, only some people act on them. Will you
Personal reflection activity At the end of each day, ask yourself: Did I see, hear or do anything today that made me feel strongly about the values I have chosen to live by Did I see something in myself that I did not like at all What was it ____________________________________________________________ Did I do something that goes against the faith that I profess or the values I hold What was it ____________________________________________________________ What happened that made me feel anger at injustice ____________________________________________________________ What happened that made me feel compassion ____________________________________________________________ What happened that made me feel the sadness that someone else was feeling ____________________________________________________________ Did I think, “I wish I could do something about that” What made me think that ____________________________________________________________ Could you do anything about the things you are noticing It could be action you take to change yourself, or action to help others. Do this exercise for some weeks and it will help you see which values are most important to you. These are the values you should act on! You can photocopy this or download it from www.forgood.co.za It doesn’t have to be action that changes your whole life, or action that creates a huge international organisation. It can be simple action! 17
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