When I was in college, I joined a group called, simply, World Peace Organization. We were a small group with fundamental goals. Our main objective was to bring about peace on earth.
Kids these days aren't as naively optimistic as we were then. Kids these days have seen bombings, massacres and times of seemingly endless war. More significantly, they've seen that our generation--a generation with our own share of political assassinations and war--was unable to change anything.
World peace. What a wonderful idea. And completely impossible.
We won't have world peace. Not in this lifetime. There will always be someone who stirs the pot and creates turmoil.
But we can work for peace. Starting with inner peace. Being satisfied with our own selves, while continuing to strive for improvement. Then we can move to peace within our families and our communities.
We can't have world peace. But we can do our best to live in peace, in our own little areas of the world.
By the way, I did find peace. I found Islam.
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