So lately, I have been seeing the peace sign more and more on a daily basis. I love the sign, simply because I believe I know what the sign stands for. However, I don't understand how someone can post, flaunt, or talk about their admiration and desire for peace if they purposely seek out ways to disturb "peace." For example, I know a girl who has peace signs all over her myspace. I question this right away because i know this girl likes to "beat up bitches that talk shit." Not my usual choice of lingo, but that is how she said it. Maybe it's only my personal opinion, but i believe to be a "peaceful" person, one must learn to forgive. Forgiving is not easy, neither is achieving peace, as many of you probably know. Likeing the looks of the peace sign might be a small step towards reaching peace, so I'm not really complaining. I'm simply wondering what some people think "peace" means, and why they believe they can contribute to forming a peaceful society. I know I believe I can.
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Also in order to be a peaceful person, one must not start having physical fights with other people, which is the opposite of what your friend does.
Read my blog!
Peace is not a virtue if it comes by burying one's head in the sand, allowing evil to grow.
War is not a vice if one fights evil for the protection of the innocent.
An adult used to say to me, "You can only find peace within yourself." Everything else in the world is so chaotic. I'm not sure what kind of peace you're talking about in this context, but peace in general is really hard to find. There's always something that comes up. How long do you think peace can last? Sometime there will be people breaking the peace. War and fights are inevitable. It's what makes life so full of...life.
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I often say "'flashng the peace sing isnt just a trend its a way of life."
your blog reminds me of a myspace blog i wrote the other day so i thought id share it with you.
You may say im a dreamer. But im not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one. Today, I realized how completely raw people actually are. I saw the desperation in a boy ripping his own campaign posters off the walls at school after being mocked and critisized. I saw the hope in an obese woman working at wal mart trying her hardest to raise the money to get the surgery that will save her life. Imagine there's no possesions, I wonder if you can. There's no need for greed or hunger, but a brotherhood of man. I can't get through this alone, this day after day type of struggle that bluntly hits me in the face as I wake each morning. I can't get through this alone. Im going to need you're help. Its hard to wake up and look a man in the eyes, this man who is so shattered inside himself...loveless..lifeless..hopeless. Its hard to concentrate on the good of each day when people say its not possible. All im saying is give peace a chance. I've been in the lowest of valleys had I've been on the tallest of montians. This is not another "my life sucks story" because belive me I know I have it way better then most. I may fight with my dad, hate my dad. I may want a mom, need a mom. I may fall in head over heels for a boy. A worthless boy, but I have shoes and drink clean water. Remorse is the perfect word. I laughed and giggled at the "homo boy" running for junior class president. I pointed and stared at the fat lady at the store. Im no better, however I really want to see a change in this world. I am the change in this world. Imagine all the people sharing all the world. When you're drowning you don't say, "I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me," you just scream. Then why don't we scream, demand this change, its my future, and yours, and hers, and his...why don't we make a difference? My role in society or any artists role is to express what we all feel. Not to tell the people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of all of us. When I was younger I was only worried about wearing the coolest etnies and the hollister and fitting in with the crowd, but that got the world nowhere. To forget about social status for a second and open up your eyes hearts minds, that's what peace is all about. If everyone demanded peace instead of another telivision set, we would know peace. Is it clichè to speak about peace? Well im going to relive a conversation I had the other day.
Chellby: dude peace and love has gotten really big this year.
Shelby: yeah I remember when it was only you, freshman year screaming peace and love and mother earth. You pioneered this shit."
Lets let the world know that peace is possible. Write it, sing it, draw it, photograph it, report it. I read a today that a career most "scene" kids go into is journalism. Well fuck, for one lets not lable people, and for two journalism is beautiful. Its a treasure I hold close. So if that makes me more of a "scene kid," what ever, I won't even stress. Im the change in the world. I want people to want to read what I have to say!
A dream you dream alone is a dream, a dream we dream togeather is reality.
This is basically just an emotianly packed RANT.
Peace&&love