so i guess this is why i never open up a newspaper.

or tune into the nightly news.

my head would be spinning 24/7 if i did.

it’s not that i am oblivious to what is going on outside of my quiet, “make love, not war” world, but i find repetitive updates on violence somewhat disturbing and pointless. ideally, we would all do what needs to be done to survive (and by survive, i mean, live with a roof over our head, food on the table and love in our hearts) and then go home at night to be with our lover, our family, our friends. it seems fairly simple to me. but instead, men and women must leave their families to fight in foreign lands so that i can live my life as i choose.

don’t get me wrong, i CHERISH my freedom. and i know that many lives have been spent so that i can rest easy at night with a pillow under my head and tranquility in my soul. but going even deeper than that, why do we have to FIGHT for peace in the first place? whose ego has become so gigantic that he feels a need to create violence so that innocent creatures have to suffer? whose existence is so miserable that he has chosen to hate rather than love? no matter how hard i try, i can not wrap my head around it. the root of the problem is FEAR, ego, lack of love and compassion, hunger for power and money, greed, FEAR. when you get rid of these and replace them with love and awareness, you have peace. everything else is secondary.

(photo via livingthepoem)

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