Peace and What we can do about it

If i guessed it right, you must be wondering if you come to the correct site or whether you typed the address wrongly and landed yourself into another junk website. Well, it saddens me to say that none of those has happened and you are here because like others, inlcluding me, you are searching for the one missing element in our life which has eluded mankind for the better part of last 100 years - Peace. Before you make a run for the next site, i am not trying to sell you anything. All i am asking is spend 5 minutes, Read what i have to say and you can either proceed to the next site or open your email client and tell others about this site. We are living in a world where each morning if we dont read about War, Bomb Blasts, Suicide Bombers etc... we think the world has gone crazy. That unforutantely is the true nature of all people living on this planet. Some might disagree, some might even blatantly lie, but deep down thats the truth. why? how? because thats what you were told to expect when you grew up. The Actions of one Individual for his/her vested interests invariably affects a million people every single day. Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Eastern Europe, Srilanka, Somalia and many others are caught up or have been caught up in this. That is the Bigger picture. As a common man, we can protest, we can go on hunger strikes, we can demonstrate to show our power , we can refuse to pay taxes and we can do what many others are doing right now somewhere in this world. But that is not the purpose or the aim of this site. If you want to start a Forest Fire, you cannot go one fine morning and set it all ablaze at once. You need to start somewhere, in a corner, on a leaf and hope it spreads. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness. 1 Similarly i want to start with you and hope it spreads. Just think for a minute, how many times you would have had an Argument with your Parents, Girlfriend, Boyfriend, Wife, Husband, Boss, colleague or with anyone else. Why? because you believe in something which they dont or because you want something which they dont approve of? Mankind came into this earth millions of years ago and for most part of that time, no one exactly knows what we were doing on this planet. It has been generally assumed that we were living in caves, living with the animals that roamed at that time and we lived what we call now an Uncivilized life. But, what has been generally agreed is we lived in peace. We Lived in peace with animals, with the nature and most of all, We Lived in peace amongst us. No one can and has really said why we started fighting. We can formulate theories, write books on the possible assumptions. but the reality is no one really knows. Now Imagine, that something for which you were arguing for is given to you. What will you do with it? Can you do something greater than what the other person has done with it? Now Imagine, having got that object of your desire, you go out, throw a party, get drunk and on your way back home, you meet with an accident and die. I sincerely hope that something like that doesnt happen. But like how we have been taught to think all possibilities, lets imagine that scenario. No one really knows whether there is an Afterlife or not. lets assume there is none. Now that you are dead, what will you do with that object? you can immediately say, what if the other person had died as well? You are quite right in your thinking. For something which is of no use to you after you are dead, you fought with the other person, thus breaking the friendship you both had and the next time you both see each other, you must be cursing them inside you and waiting for a chance to get your revenge. Now for some part of your life, you are going to spend time to get the other person down. But Imagine, what you both could have done with it if you hadnt fought for the same object. Maybe the object in question is something which many others can benefit from? maybe it could help save the lives of many people? maybe it can help change the way we live? the possibilities are endless. This is just one of the examples i can give you. There are many, many other scenarios which happen every single day in our daily life. Stop, Think for a minute and then act. So what if the other person has said something bad to you or done something bad. You dont have to retaliate. You dont have to prove a point. History has given us many examples of Victory without bloodshed, acts of violence. Dont wait for others to start, Dont wait for others to follow you, March Ahead with pride and others will soon take notice and will be with you. There is still time. There is still a way. Together We can make this world a Better Place to live for now and forever. All We Want is Peace For more Articles, AlliWantispeace Article Written by Praveen.