LiViNg PeAcE

I am very pleased to feel that I will never run out of people. Even though I am very content with what my blog has turned out to be, this week I want to relate my entry on something that connects with me even more. I chose peace. You have probably seen that I am all about peace, but with this entry I want to think about what peace really is. In wikipedia Peace is defined as “a state of harmony or the absence of hostility.” To me, peace is something that is not yet known to humans as a whole. Many of the people I have written about represent peace to me because they have found the balance needed. Irena Sendler, for example, risked her life by saving children. She did something that at the time was wrong, but because she knew she was doing something right. To me, she found equilibrium between bad and good. In other words, she did something that was wrong in order to achieve something that was right. Like the popuar saying “The end justifies its means.”Peace has to be achieved within a person before we can have it between people. Like Xao Tzun once said “If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nation, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace in the neighbors. If there is to be peace in the neighbors, there must be peace in the home. And if there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the hearts.”Other people consider peace ot be a battle. An example is Albert Camus, when he said “Peace is the only bettle worth waging.” Do agree that peace is a battle, but it does not involve anyone else. It is a battle with one’s self. I believe it is a battle because peace is something very hard to achieve completely. For me, peace is the equilibrium between one’s thoughts and their relationships and co-excistence with the world. I think it is hard because trying to find peace can sometimes lead us to things we don’t want to do. With this, I don’t mean doing bad things, but doing good things that you don’t want to do. “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies”-Moshe Dyan. The most important message I would like to get across is that “Every one of us can make a contribution” like Wangari Maathai said. “every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometime I tell myslf, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what’s happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.” Every one of us needs to find peace. There is no other way to world peace, but to find peace within each individual, because “Alone, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”