Perspective... The road Less Traveled....

Quote of the Day

"...An Eye for An Eye MAkes Us All Blind..."
                                  Gandhi

Peace

Peace; a simple word that people seem to go crazy over. What does Peace truly mean; no war; no hate? In some ways thats true, but peace in perspective has never been tried. If nobody lives in fear and violence than it sounds great. However in peace how do we solve conflict, well it's easy, you can't. In peace there is no violence, however human emotion is incapable of no conflict. So rather than peace how about no weapons. Well that also sounds good as well, but if government gives up its weapons and the people give up their weapons than everybody's happy right? Wrong, without a way to insure that violence does not occur, threats of other violence are needed. This has been the case since the dawn of civilization crime leads to punishment. Recently I have seen how this dose not always work. Instead of punishment; rehabilitation sounds like the smarter solution. Education is the master of peace; if people are educated and taken care of their should be no threat of violence. In order to have "Peace" society must be willing to change and develop. Just taking away the weapons dose not cure the solution. People have to view conflict as a thing that must be changed. Even sports can be thought of as violent, however if people focus their violent nature on things like sport the world would be a safer place. Humans must also learn to trust; mistrust is the opposite and what our violent nature feeds off of. Mistrust and not understanding are what cause conflict to begin.

Whats my problem?

Growing up I was given much freedom of opinion. I was shaped in part by my parents ideals and in turn they were shaped by there parents. However I have been recently thinking about values and I find myself at a total loss for words. I have no idea what to be or how to be, but I find myself leaning toward a peace of me that says..."WHO CARES???" Why should I or anybody else care about what society and other people think. Why do people insist in fitting into a picturesque idea of what a perfect person is or does. Hey if that works for you than thats your opinion. If you want to wast your time trying to be something you truly are not, theres not a thing I can do about that. I, on the other hand, don't want to be in this picture. So if you ask we what my problem is, well thats easy... I have an opinion and I will share it. Theres nothing wrong with acting like a sour apple some days. We all have our moments (Including myself), we have to understand that who we are is nothing to be ashamed of and we should all have an opinion and voice it. This is especially true  in situations and in places where people don't want to hear your opinion. Just remember theres nothing wrong with telling the truth, even if it hurts!

Perspective

Today while watching the news I discovered how difficult it is to be an honest person in this world. Whatever happened to good always triumphs over evil. Maybe its not true, good dose not always have to win, does it ? Maybe this is something that we have created to make ourselves more comfortable with the harsh realities that the real world truly is. The "real" world is not for the fain of heart. It seems to me that the good people either become the bad people or are just swallowed up them. This has to be true because I believe all people are born clean and pure. It's society that shapes people into what they feel is the right and wrong. Hey!!! Last time I checked this is a free country and we are a free people, but look around... How free are we? If society creates the poor and the evil, how can we hate them. If society creates the hate and mistrust than we have none to blame but ourselves. Perspective is what rules society; from the economy to what food you and I  will eat for dinner is ruled by perspective. But this perspective is not our own it's our societies perspective. Just think about it and you'll start to see the silver lining.