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| Words: 368 For "We Want Peace Contest" Mother Teresa said What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. This is so true. Our characters are formed at home - which means, to start with, we must have a home. A steady home, a safe home. Physically, intellectually, spiritually and emotionally safe. A home where hard work, creativity and kindness are rewarded, mistakes, while forgiven, are gently and firmly corrected, and ethics and integrity are modeled and expected. The unfortunate thing is, we live in a world of short-cuts, and this includes short-cuts in parenting. Don't want to spend time with your child? Get an electronic babysitter, or compensate with material things. Don't want to hold the child accountable? Blame the teacher, the neighbor, society ... everyone else. Make excuses. Hence entitlement and the inability to see another point of view. Hence the disregard of one's own responsibility in creating a given situation. You can't value others if you haven't been taught to value yourself. It is when you consider yourself worthy that you'll hold yourself up to high standards, and admit it when you've disappointed yourself. If, on the other hand, you consider yourself to be worthless, you won't see the worth of anything - and hence won't care if it is destroyed. Be it an object, a living being, an idea or a value, you won't be able to cherish it. When people are hungry for power because they don't feel fulfilled in other ways, they think that power is gained by tearing down instead of building up. Hence the lack of peace. At all levels in the hierarchy, those who order or indulge in violence are most likely those who haven't felt loved as children. I think this is changing. I think the current generation is growing up to realize some things their forebears didn't, and I hope this means more love in the world, and more peace. Young children now show awareness for the environment. They overlook differences in race, religion and social class. Hopefully, when they become parents, they'll pass these values on. Then we'll have a world in which building up is valued, not tearing down. Yes, dearest Mother. You are wise. I only hope everyone listens. |
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