 Why
I am a Rotaractor
Carolos Antonios Vidalis
I have been
a Rotaractor for 7 years, six out of which were in the Rotaract
Club of Panorama Thessaloniki (Greece) and one in the Rotaract
Club of Paris (France).
Rotaract and Rotary have
challenged me to become a better person, to overcome personal
barriers and to embrace important values for life. This constant
challenge is the main reason why I am a Rotaractor.
I find
the most interesting part of the Rotaract experience to be
service projects, which have helped me in maturing socially and
personally, in breaking free of egoism and in acquiring a
broader perspective to the reality around us.
In addition, I
had never expected to meet so many different people through
Rotaract both in my country and abroad! Each one’s different
occupation, personality, ethnicity and culture display Rotary’s
international dimension in all greatness, as well as its ability
to bring different people together under the same ideals and
aims. Thus, through Rotaract I have been able to learn and
express myself on all levels.
Finally, I would like to
share a personal view for Rotaract and Rotary. In the same way
that the soaring mountains of our earth are solid, immovable and
firm in the lapse of time, the Rotarian values have been
preserved since the founding of the first Club. These high
mountains, great as they are, gather snow which then melts to
become the life-giving H2O for the animal and plant kingdom. In
its turn, this water creates brooks, fountains and –sometimes-
powerful headstreams, which gradually join each other while
descending from the mountains and form into rivers that traverse
forests and valleys. This fresh water could be parallelized to
young Rotaractors and Rotaract: “flowing from” the ideals of
Rotary they vigorously and dynamically reach parts that have had
been harder to approach and offer new possibilities and
perspectives.
Carolos Antonios Vidalis
Counselor
for Rotaract matters to the District 2481 Governor (2010-2011)
Assistant National Representative for Greece to the European
Rotaract (2010-2011)
Past-President of Rotaract Club of
Panorama Thessaloniki, Greece D-2481 (2008-2009)
Correspondence: vidalis_carolos(at)yahoo.gr
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