A Perfect World

Essay Writing Competition 2025
Category: 8 - 11 years
- Commendation -

Junior category: Commendation

"A Perfect World"- Essay by Patreace Orene Tiu from the Philippines.

A Perfect World

A perfect world. That’s what everyone dreams of, isn’t it? I feel the same way too. Sometimes I space out, wondering why it has to be this way. We all have dreams of how much of a better place the world could be, so I guess I’ll write down mine here.

My ideal world would be pretty basic, honestly. No wars, no poverty, no chance of our resources completely depleting. No fossil fuels (I think can all unanimously agree that it is and will always be a bad idea, despite how popular it is), no creepy people doing weird, creepy stuff, no pollution, no deforestation, no animals constantly on the verge of extinction, oh, and a bit of genetic mutation so that junk food doesn’t kill us in the long run. But I guess that’ll stay a dream for as long as I live. Well, hopefully not. But the sad part to all of this is that all of this will possibly never be true.

A word for a perfect world is "utopia" and if you search it up, it means ideal perfection, and considering everyone’s idea of perfection is slightly different, it’s unfortunately unobtainable. Also, the origin of the word utopia comes from a book of the same name published in 1516 by Sir Thomas More about an island with a society that’s, well, perfect. More wanted to suggest his fictional island was simply impossible so he combined two Greek words, ou, which meant not or no, and topos, which meant place. So it basically meant nowhere.

So, you might ask, what’s the point of dreaming? Why should we waste our time visualizing such a perfectly perfect world if said place doesn’t exist? Well, yeah. You’re right. Perfect doesn’t exist in this world, but it’s still possible to make the world a better place. With kindness, we can slowly start building and shaping the world with pure, uncorrupt goals like making sure everyone, if not most is provided for well, and protecting our resources so they don’t completely disappear and we don’t have to survive an apocalypse for something.

(And although I wish I could say that would be fun, my matter-of-fact brain goes to hard questions like "How would you get food? How would you protect your rations from being stolen by raiders?" And the worst one yet, "Where would the toilets be?")

But what I’m trying to say is, we can eventually achieve a good enough world with kindness. With kindness, we can protect our planet and everything else living on it. With kindness, we can care for others and, with enough of it, end wars. So, I guess that’s it.

I’ll recap this by saying that although this world could never be perfect, it can be better with kindness. As the writer Mark Twain once said, "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." And I’m looking forward to when all’s well.

Amongst our younger participants, Patreace's insightful and powerful essay carries a strong message. Her reminder that kindness is the foundation for a better world is beautifully expressed! Thank you and congratulations again!

Patreace attends MGC New Life Christian Academy in Manila/ Philippines. English is home language.