Pain

Peace.

It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.  It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.  - (Unknown) 

There's a common perception in life that we all run the same race. The context being in difficulty and length.  But life has become a treadmill for most. Giving us the illusion that we are moving forward, when we're actually staying put.  And once this is realized, one’s world is turned upside down.  It breaks people.  It evokes bitterness in the heart and soul.  And as the universal nature of the rise in the ocean’s tide brings up everything together with it, destroyed men and women look to bring everything apart.

Negativity goes against nature.

The truth of the matter is that we are a destroyed world.  And everything continually falls apart. We break at all the right places. And heal in all the wrong ones.  We stay up to worry ourselves. We massage our fears. And once we snap, we destroy the very things that God / nature has blessed us with. 

So how do we fix it?

How do I fix this post? As this dark theme looms large over my writing, it seems almost hopeless. 

Like finding peace in the world, it seems almost hopeless. 

You try to find a solidarity of peace in the kind acts of people, even as we walk among Devils. Yet men and women toil among each other over nonsense, as dead children wash up on beaches. A child who, himself and with his family, was just trying to find a peaceful home. A child who was just trying to find his own individual peace. Away from war. Away from grief. Away from pain. 

The world is a reflection of our individual lives.  It is a collective picture of each individual.  It is the sum of many stories.

Painful Stories

The Sum of Many Acts.

Despicable acts. 

Where is the peace in that?

Might we never find peace among each other because we never make peace within ourselves? Thus, hurting each other. Hating each other. Killing each other. Breaking each other. 

Breaking each other's hearts. And further breaking our own. 

They say in life, "if you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas." If we continually subject ourselves to this dangerous, defeatist attitude, we're only further reiterating this evil dogma on earth. And passing it along to others. 

It's tough to get up. But we'll eventually get up. 

It's tough to find peace. But we'll eventually find peace. 

Even when we pay the price of our life for it. 

1. "When he shall die take him and cut him out into stars and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."
   - William Shakespeare 
   Sleep well Aylan. You were not able to find peace on Earth. But where your soul is going, peace is the rule. 
   Not the exception. 
   http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/europe/migration-crisis-aylan-kurdi-turkey-canada/