Name: Chan Lon
School: North Side High School, Fort Wayne, IN
Grade: 12th
Parents: Nai Thitsa and Mi Kon Kin
 1st place (High School)

 

IMG_2823.JPG          Future Duties for Mon Kingdom

Future duties for Mon kingdom, all of Mon people in the world have to think about how to get our Mon country back.  And we must work together and help of each other.

To be successful in future there are many sacrifices that Mon people have to do.  First of all, we should solve our family problems.  In all societies, the family structure is most important.  We must start to encourage the family members to always be committed to each other because it is the basic need. We should remind our young children that they are Mon and encourage them in every decision that they make to follow the family beliefs just like our ancestors. Our community comes next we should try to solve our community problems.  I want Mon people to be united with each other. When people live in closed contact with each other, there can be problems such as jealously, bitterness, envy of leadership.  Our people must learn to work together in serving each other. Jealousy was one of the main reasons we lost our country.  In the past, we did not pay attention to certain things, lack of respectful, consistency and extra. So when they have to attack other country like Burmese, did not have enough power or energy to declare them. 

The idea within the community, we must help our community to be peaceful toward each other.  Of course, we are human being, we make mistakes. And that’s ok to make mistake, as long as you learn from it to improve your community of your individual. In order to regain our country, we must learn to forgive of each other and showing comprehension, discus with each other in order to regain our country.    

We lost our identity, because we don’t have a spot on a map. We continue to observe Mon customs and must teach the importance of these to our young children.  Our young people should support their nationality even they are high or low education.  No matter where they live, what they do, how good they are, one thing they need to know is that they are Mon, they born to help their people that are suffering back in Burma. 

            My desire is that once they complete their education, they should return to Monland and start guiding or teaching the local people how to set up rules. They also need to learn English to be able to get connect with other country.  Not only English though, they also need to learn their native language.  We can complete in technology with the rest of the world. We cannot rebuild our country by fighting with gun and anger anymore.  But we can use our brain and education to fight to as a group.  If Mon citizens will work together, I believe, we can get our beautiful and peaceful Monland back.  One last thing that I would like to suggest our children is that keeps our consistency and be respectful to all of our people!!!!!!