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What is peace? Maybe people are questioning about this now, as the current worldwide-booming issues are about war, terrorism or stuffs like that. Peace, in my opinion, is when people are supporting each other with no hatred and suspicion between them. Peace is the thing that will bring us happiness and joy. Peace is the answer, the solution of all the issues I mentioned before.
But the
question is, perhaps, how to make peace? Sceptical people would probably deny
the probability of this world being peaceful enough, so that there would not be
any problem anymore. The reason could be because of the war and problems has been
occurring for a really long time; so long until to stop them feels impossible.
Me? I can
state for sure that I’m not one of those people. I believe that there’s a way
to start peace; the first step is by opening our mind to understand each other.
I like this quote from Albert Einstein, “Peace cannot be kept by force – it can only
be achieved by understanding.” It’s true, isn’t it? But the first step
in everything is always the trickiest part. I don’t say hard, it’s not easy to
change our way of thinking but I believe it is not hard too; it’s tricky. In
doing this step, we need to know when to change our mind, but we also can’t
forget when not to. To keep these things in balance is perhaps the key; not
only the key to peace, but also the key to a better condition that can support
peace in the future. By holding our principle tight, I believe there will be a
diversity of thought that could always maintain our head to be open-minded.
The next step
is a lot easier. With our mind being more open to what others think, it will be
easy for us to solve our problems. Like I’ve pointed before, peace is the answer
for all of them. Last but not least, we need to maintain peace we have after we
solve all the things. This, in my opinion, is the hardest part. To achieve
something is hard, but to keep what we achieve is harder. Right?
Even so, what
we need to focus right now is to start peace. There is a really nice quote from
Mother Theresa that could perhaps sum up all my writing:
“If we
have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
And I believe
now is the right time to realize our bond with each other; now is the right
time for peace.
