Perfect World, 2017 Junior Edition

Often, I have my students write in-class essays with no warning and with the caveat that some will be used, with permission, in my nightly blog. Last Monday, I asked all five of my classes to describe in paragraph form a perfect world. I set it up referencing the fall from Eden. Based on what they know, they think life would be difficult at best without cell phones, the Internet, the Mall, WHATABURGER, and football. Their thoughts are interesting to say the least. Again, these are all used by permission and tonight's writings are all from juniors. (Girls are in pink, boys are in blue.)

To me, a perfect world would not be one where no one would have to struggle. I believe that struggling with mistakes is good because when we make mistakes, we learn from them. In a perfect world, people would acknowledge when they have failed, but instead of admitting defeat, they try again, learn from it, and therefore mature. A perfect world would not be one where everyone is good at everything, but one where people are encouraged to express their natural talents. If everyone were good at everything, all individuality would be taken from us. If everything were handed to us, we would become a lazy society, but if we had to struggle to learn something and be good at it, we achieve growth. A perfect world would be one which negative emotions wouldn’t exist. Instead of being stuck with feelings of anger, envy, and sadness, we would be able to help each other and move on. Instead of focusing on the worst situation and assuming the worst case scenario, we would focus on the positive aspects of everything.
Lanz

It is common that most people on this earth envision a perfect world or a utopia, where everyone is equal and no one is superior to anyone else based on their societal status. In a perfect world, there would be one language that all the people of God would speak and understand. There would be no death, sickness, violence, or harm in general. Everyone would spread love, joy, kindness, and happiness. No source of law enforcement would be necessary because no crime would be committed. There would be space/room for everyone and no one would be homeless. There would be no need for rules or uniforms or even school because we would all have the same amount of God-given knowledge. There are so many other things that a perfect world would contain, however, we can comprehend or fully understand because we are only familiar with the world of sin and darkness we live in today.

Sydney

In a perfect world there would be no religion, ethnicity, or any other differences in people. Really in a perfect world these would be no humans. Almost all conflict has been because of humanity. The world would have only plants, soil, clouds, the sun, and water.  There would be no death, sadness, angers, jealousy, or any other conflicting emotions. Without humanity the world can function perfectly as nature pleases. There would be no deforestation, over-use of land, or any other human caused damage done to the earth. With no damage done other than nature balancing natural disasters the earth would never end- all of the negativity of the world would leave.

Cam

In a perfect world, we would not have to worry abut watching how we live because everything would already be correct. We would be able to go out at night without worrying about safety because crime would be no more and no one would try to do us harm. Harmful thoughts would cease to exist and only peace and love would be in the earth.In a perfect world, human need would cease and our human species would learn to love everyone at an equal level. There would be nothing that defines and separates social classes and status. Gaby In a perfect world, there would be no temptation because temptation caused sin to enter the world in the first place. Adam and Eve sinned when tempted by the serpent and when they sinned against God, all the bad things came into the world. So, without temptation, there would be no fear, pain, or sickness. Everything bad would not exist so that would be a perfect world! Morgan God bless, Steve Luke 18:1
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