“No Person, no place and no thing has any power over us, for ‘We’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace, harmony and balance in our minds we will find it in our lives.”
“Peace” of course and usually the talk of town, often lead to the misconception that it is to be fulfilled through “Violence”, the opponent of this factor. However, It’s a false fulfillment. By experience and notation it can often be seen that love can solve violence and put an end to it.
Nowadays, we see crime scenes, harassment and war all over the place. Is it the fact that these notorious people don't know how to live in harmony? Or is it that they were exposed to such culture? Or by chance is it that we don’t know how to create peace?. Well No, the exact reason seems to be the lack we have in extracting the definition of peace.
Painting
There once lived a king, who announced to reward the painter who would draw a painting depicting peace. Many talented painters sent the king their paintings.
Among these there was a clear lake and a calm sky. As the king opened up an exhibition for these paintings, many thought that this clear landscape portrait had the chance of claiming the prize. But as the king announced the winner at the end of the exhibition, everyone was astonished and it was, the picture that won the prize had rough, bare mountains dipped in an angry sky with lightning. It seemed to portray much of a storm rather than peace. Almost all of the people thought this to be a terrible mistake.
Yet, if anyone looked closely at the painting, it could clearly be seen a tiny bush growing in the cracks of a rock. In this tiny bush a mother bird had built her nest. In the midst of the rush and angry weather, the bird sat on her nest calm and peacefully.
With an unknown source this story tells a unique and very distinguished story to explain the true aim of peace. Peace defines the inner harmony of a person’s soul, it can be attained at any state whether the person is happy or sad. Depending on today’s world “finding peace” may seem to evaporate due to the causes of war and disasters.
Although most of us ponder thinking this way, a handful have already gotten into the path of maintaining peace. Out of these handful can be poor whereas the remaining could be wealthy, which expresses the fact that tranquility can affect people regardless of gender, race, money caste or nationality. It also proves that “Money” itself can’t solve problems, finally leading them to Peace. Nevertheless Money can always be a problem because maintaining Peace is hard.
Must grow within us
The world being monetized may feed into the question; “Will peace ever be there?”. Even though many disagree with the positive side of this question’s answer, if we considerably go through it carefully and intensely we can get to a point where things can eventually turn to Peace’s existence. And yes, it does have its own rules, to abide Peace it must grow within each of us.
It shouldn’t be able to be penetrated by hatred, jealousy or other negative values, For which one must acquire love for every human being.
Mostly conflicts occur because people find it uneasy to fit into different people in this vast society. All of us learn to cooperate with each other despite religion, skin colour, gender and other barriers.
The correct meaning of peace has to be redefined as “staying calm amidst disasters and trouble”.
It has become an essential fact to guide humans from childhood to live in harmony and quietude. Therefore many institutes plus schools initiate group work and community work to enhance the peace among children.
Coexistence
People must live in coexistence with each other, yes they may come in different sizes , in different colours and with different qualities. Which doesn’t mean that they are to be categorized into groups and treated differently.
Unfortunately some people don’t get this idea clearly, finally leading them to create unwanted conflicts. It’s a must that all of the earth’s beings must be taught that living in quietude and harmony will eventually create paths to a better future.
The word “Peace” doesn’t mean to be in a place where there’s no noise or trouble, it means to be in chaos but calm at heart. So after all the from the story above, A bird sitting in its nest in the middle of a storm was the exact way in expressing and pointing out the correct meaning of “Peace”. The real peace isn’t the peace we experience through signing treaties and deals.
As actual humans in my opinion we haven’t practically experienced tranquility due to our busy nature.
Real peace is the state of mind, not the state of the surroundings. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process; gradually changing opinions, slowly cutting down old barriers and forming brilliant new structures.
As the former first lady of the United States said, “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work at it”. Let’s work together for world peace.