Fighting For Peace

No matter how big the war whether nation against nation or two men in a bar, the result is the same: loss. In my lifetime nearly constant war, and even before. And that is just those involving America. A hundred years, another Hundred Years War! Over what? Some guy getting shot in Serbia? A nation struggling to regain itself after an unjust treaty? Another fearing aggrandizement? Another throwing off the yoke of serfdom? And then that interminable series for control of oil? Even between friends, when disagreement escalates to argument, what happens to kindness, patience, understanding? A friend lost, possibly forever. Is your life more peaceful following an argument, won or lost? Is your life more peaceful after the defeat of all those nations falling to the power of another? Is your life more peaceful than it was ten, fifteen years ago? Forget how it is for us oldsters looking back fifty, sixty, seventy years or more. I think not. Many years ago a wise man said to me that life was set up backwards, upside down: rather than send our youngest to war, the leaders of the countries involved, not some surrogates, should do battle on open ground. Suppose they gave a war and no one came? Collection: Attaining Peace Written: May 2018