Tuesday, December 24, 2024

During the last months I have been reading The Lord of the Rings. As the CEO of Rumma & Ko I am also an employer, and so while reading this story I wondered why Gandalf, Frodo and all these people do what they do without getting any salary. They give up their peaceful lifestyle, sacrifice their health and even their lives for a mission that is clearly unclear from the beginning. Why? What makes them act? We are tempted to say that neither would we hesitate if somebody would ask us to save the world. But would we really?

How can young people open ways of hope and take responsibility to make life beautiful around us and to give a future for peace? A brother of the Taizé community raised this question two months ago during a conference in Tallinn (link).