What Heal The World means to me

In 1991 the  Dangerous album  came out. A faboulous album by Michael Jackson. This album containted a beautiful song named Heal The Wold.  Accompanied with this song was a message and a foundation. The message was Heal The World, and the foundation was The Heal The World foundation. Each time Michael performed the song on stage you could feel that power that it had on the audiance. People who would first fight to get a spot at the front all of a sudden were standing peacefully next to each other.  For that I will be thankful for ever to Michael.

I have always been concerned about the world and the animals.  When I was a child I used to lay in my bed trying to sleep but my head always used to be filled with worries on how this world would end. I was a kid arround the 80ties. Remember?? Thriller, Mr Reagan as a president, and ofcourse the cold war and the weapons that went with it. Those atomic weapons have had a great effect on me when I was a child. I feared it. Once my mom took me to a demonstration against Atomic Weapons and the things that I have seen there were horrifying to me. People were carrying dols covered with blood, and coffins. I never felt so close to death in my entire life. Even though I was a young kit some how I understood what an Atomic weapon could do to the world and the animals.

I was so upset when I came home from this demonstration that I told everyone I did not ever want to demonstrate against anything ever again. And since that day I was really worried about the world.

In 1993 I voilentered for the Heal The World foundation. I helped out with an event that was named "Swim The World" all together we raised about F400,- dutch guilders for the Heal The World foundation.

In 1994 I helped collecting money for Heal The World in Amsterdam with Fanclub the legent continues. The reactions of the public was sometimes positive and sometimes negative.

The song has a positive effect on me. And it ofcourse brings back good memories.

To me the true meaning of Heal The World is: do everything in my power to help children and animals and the enviroment. That is why I have choosen to be a vegitarian. I try to wear as little leather as I can. First of all because you have to kill an animal for that and second : The leather can be prepared by childlabour. To those are enough reasons to elimanate wearing leather as much as I can.

I always try to avoid brans that use child labour for manufacturing there products. I that is the hardest part.

With cleaning I try to use products that are no bad for the enviroment.

Always separate glas and paper from the garbage.

And I am trying to find a way to be more affective with healing the world.

By Miryam Massop , Amstedam Dec.2nd 2000