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MOVING TOWARD WORLD PEACE

today i am filled with sadness and love for the men, women and children in new york and across the globe.

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one of many ways we can contribute to world peace is by sharing love, peace and freedom, and not by spreading fear, pain and suffering.

on too many occasions i have heard something of this nature regarding attacks on the men, women and children that make up america: "that's just a tiny piece of what our country knows! we live with war everyday. we suffer everyday! you don't even know yet what it is like to suffer!"

and the blatant desire there is to make damn sure the men, women and children of america know the pain, suffering, terror others experience.

and in these conversations it is my tendency to take that thinking down to micro-level and use the example of two families living next to each other anywhere on earth, instead of two countries at war with each other.

so in home A, you have the mom, dad, and their two children. and in this home the parents severely abuse their children both emotionally and physically. the children in this home live in fear everyday. they are afraid to wake up, afraid to go to sleep. their lives are miserable.

in home B, you have the mom, dad, and their two children. and in this home the parents love and cherish their children. the parents support their children, guide them, celebrate their accomplishments and comfort them through setbacks, disappointments and failures. in this house, the children look forward to bedtime stories, and wake up to a healthy breakfast. their lives are peaceful.

question one: do you refer to the children in home B as spoiled?

question two: if you were in charge, what would be most important to you? to place the children from the healthier, more peaceful home inside the home where the parents are abusive so they can KNOW pain and oppression, suffering and misery?

or,

remove the abused children from their very unhealthy environment and place them inside the home where they are safe and cared for properly; where they can KNOW PEACE AND LOVE?

if i had it my way, i would be much more interested in people knowing and experiencing peace and love. i think we should try and elevate one another, lift each other up, not make sure everyone has a practical taste of misery and suffering.

i would much rather all men, women and children experience democracy, not oppression.

one of the contributing problems, as i see it, is that people don't think or talk or communicate on a micro-level. viewing everything from a very comfortable, misleading distance; removing all thought of individual men, women and children/families/communties/human faces from their lenses, and instead viewing the earth as some kind of football field and countries as teams.

war is not a game. war is not a sport. when we label and refer in communication to countries as teams, "israel" vs. "iran" vs. "america" vs. "north korea" ...this feeds into a win/lose mentality which doesn't serve anyone, and it also produces sick fans and ignorant spectators, who cheer for or against a country based exclusively on geography and/or media hype, with no regard or understanding for the individual men, women and children who populate any given country. this way of communicating does not unite, but divides.

what we need in order to move toward and contribute to world peace is a magnifying glass, not a television screen. handshakes, not propaganda magazines. we need to see the beauty in a variety of colorful faces, not color-coded maps. we need to ask and listen and respond, not assume, talk and ignore.

we need to stand up against any individual, in any country who inflicts pain and suffering on others, and shine the light on any and all individuals, in any and every country, that extend kindness to others. and the thing is, there is no country where the entire population is evil, and no country where the entire population is kind.

but where on earth you can find the majority of people kind, loving and free.. those places should serve as models for how we can eventually spread peace and love and eliminate violence, hate and oppression.

and it seems such a simple thing, but actually every act of kindness is significant on a global scale.

posted by SHE @ 8:06 PM