Getting knowing Samantha Reed Smith

I was very young, still in primary school, when the book of Samantha Smith came to me. I started reading it and realized that a young child had once the "magic" recipe to change the world to the better. Just a young child asking the right questions, with no fear, with acceptance of the other, with love, enthusiasm, happiness and SMILE.
I wondered if all children could speak the truth that they mostly know the better, how intolerable that would be to the big fat lies that we've put around us. Those lies that sometimes are even greater in number than the air we breathe, so that we sometimes,ever more often everyday that passes, feel suffocating in this lack of real air.
Samantha lives in another world since 1985, after her airplane crashed. Today, she would be 38, but that's not important anymore. In the wholesome of 13 years that she lived, she managed to shake rotten beliefs of human "status", of rigid human societies that are not so human.
Her ideas are still working. She left us a legacy that now finds its major application in the modern world.
We remember her and honor her contribution.
But most importantly, we are aware about the new kids of this world. They also know the same innate human truth, and if we let them, even more if we help them, they can show us the next steps of the path Samantha traced first.

PS: the title links you to Samantha Smith's official site