{"id":58200,"date":"2023-10-31T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/missionary-life\/missione-un-viaggio-che-cambia-lo-sguardo-quarta-parte\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:29:39","slug":"mission-a-journey-that-changes-your-outlook-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/missionary-life\/mission-a-journey-that-changes-your-outlook-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission: a journey that changes your outlook – part four"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year many young people decide to get involved with the journey of Giovani e Missione<\/a>, which is a two-year path that includes a short experience in the mission. More than a trip abroad, it is an itinerary to discover oneself and know what truly matters in life, an opportunity to be questioned by the beautiful and important questions that lead to the search for the meaning of life.<\/p>\n

Some of the young people who left on mission this year wanted to share with us what changed their outlook towards acceptance, love, joy, poverty, sacrifice, vocation\u2026 and much more. In this article we publish their sharing on the words \u201cpoverty\u201d, “injustice” and “sacrifice”.<\/p>\n

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Laura Ripamonti – Bangladesh<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Poverty is in the eyes of those who want so much but do nothing. Poverty is lamenting about everything and for everything. Poverty is not just not having money, food or health. Because you can have everything, but be poor. Poor in what? After spending a month among the truly poor, I understood that they are actually the truly rich. Rich in joy, serenity, friendly smiles, rich in small things, small gestures and small satisfactions.
\nWe Westerners often have everything, in fact too much, always too much. I realized this once again in Bangladesh, giving children things that were useless to me, but they made me rich\u2026 While they gave me something even more precious: a smile.<\/p>\n

Roberta – Thailand<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Among the many things that the mission has taught me, I believe that there is certainly the fact of becoming a little more aware of what POVERTY is or, rather, what it is not.<\/p>\n

Who is rich and who is poor? I believe that he who opens a small house is richer than the one who closes the doors of a large house, he who shares the little than he who keeps a lot for himself.<\/p>\n

WELCOMING others and being close to them brings the type of wealth, which does not fill your pockets, but that which really matters, your HEART! Moreover, I feel that this mission has made me very rich.<\/p>\n

Elisa Mazzotti \u2013 India<\/span><\/h4>\n