"Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits."
Mahatma Gandhi
In these recent few days, the war and turmoil in Israel and the Gaza strip, and the civil war in the Ukraine, have flared up again to an all out war. More sickening and sad, a Malaysian passenger jet plane has recently been shot out of the sky over Ukraine. A country already engaged in a savage civil war of it's own, has now taken the lives of nearly three hundred completely innocent souls - for no good reason.
I saw someone post a commentary in social media, for all countries in conflict - to pursue a path of peace. A very sarcastic and critical individual wrote in the comment section, "Peace has produced nothing". My immediate thought was, "So going to war and taking lives for land, resources or just pure genocide - has produced good things?" To paraphrase Gandhi again, "An eye for an eye and now we are both blind."
Is the best way to stop a fight by fighting even more? Is it good to invite more people into the fight to help settle it? Does one revenge avenge a loss? Does another revenge to the first avenge stop yet another revenge? Soon today's revenge will become decades of renewed destruction and creation of newer causes of anger, hatred, and pain? Where does it end? This cycle of pain certainly will not end in your lifetime.
But this is not the only cycle of energy that is out there. Individually we all carry our own civil wars within our own selves. Some people with straight hair want it to be curly, people with light sin rush to get tan and get darker. Some people with dark skin run to make themselves lighter. Different factions of Christians and Muslims denounce their own inner factions. If you can dwell on the positive aspects of what you the individual have to offer, you won't be as uncomfortable or upset with what you bring to the table of life. You should be seeking to blend what you have, with what already exists for the greater good of everyone at the table. If everyone did that, rather than just seek for only themselves, everyone then could drink from the fountain of success and prosperity. That is truly what peace brings. No loss of life, and increased prosperity.
People who crave violence never need much of a spark to start pursuing a destructive path. They will use any prejudice that they can to justify their actions. Look at members of your family, neighborhood or work place who have a violent tendency. They are so ready to start on a path that can become so destructive that they will willingly kill their own in a fit of rage, or completely kill innocent people - in order to justify their violent nature.
Here is the case: Just as we must have positive views not only of our individual selves, but also of our families, our homes, states, and country - we need dwell on and continuously seek positive solutions to even our most negative problems. We should be seeing and dwelling on the positive, not the negative. Involving others in a negative or selfish way to our problems usually breeds further negative results from the positive change that we wish to achieve. My brother, my sisters, my cousins, my friends...think about and dwell on positive change and the preciousness of life.
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