International Day of PEACE

I love Peace

PEACE ESSAY
There is no nobler goal than Peace. On September 21st of every year a holiday passes quietly away, with hardly a glance from others. It is said that this happens, for that day is the International Day of Peace, a time in which we should recognize the concept of Peace.
Indeed, twenty five years ago a resolution was passed making September 21st the Day of Peace. Not just for America. Nor just for Britain or France, China or Japan, Kenya or Nairobi, but for the entire world. The entire world! It is a day when no race is superior to the other, no religion is correct over another, no thought is more justified… and ideally, no gun is fired, no knife is drawn.
It is a day when our swords should go undrawn, when the Ideal of Peace perseveres over the need to be right. A day when we lend a helping hand to others in need simply for the sake of doing what is right. Time to admit when we our wrong, and humbly accept when we are correct. Yearly this time passes with nary a thought to it. Hardly a nod. It is sad that the Day of Peace is so rarely recognized, so largely unknown, for it is such a moral time should not pass as it does. In fact, it should not pass at all.
September 21st, the International Day of Peace, should never pass. It should begin without an end. Ideally it would stretch on through the rest of human history. And how difficult can it be? To simply accept another’s differences, to acknowledge and respect creeds other than our own, to go out of the way to help the poor are merely little things we can all do for ourselves and others to the betterment of the world. The threat is large, however, and others would undoubtedly take advantage of a pacifist society. It happened in Tibet, and it would certainly happen again. So while we must take steps towards peace - for that is imperative, it is also imperative that we do so with caution. Not all the world desires peace. Much of it also desires power, and that is a lust that must be done away with before we can even consider peace as possible.
But we can begin. We can live our own lives in a manner more peaceable. We can preach acceptance. Talk the talk AND walk the walk. We must. For as surely as the phrase ‘charity starts at home’ is true, so to is the fact that Peace must begin with oneself. Spend time to yourselves, listen to what your heart tells you. Meditate on what ails you, what rubs you the wrong way, and convey those positive actions onto others. By doing so, you will have begun the march toward Peace, and others shall surely follow.

Let's peace be upon and with us for always.