Peace: Its Meaning, Importance, and Threats to Peace

As we draw ourselves closer to the twelfth-hour. This five-letter word and its different translations throughout the languages of the world have varying degrees of meaning. To some people, Peace is a loose term thrown about to describe love, religion, and interconnectedness. To others, Peace is a word they have rarely experienced but have longed for greatly. And to a large few peace is merely a word of no meaning a word that enters one ear and exits the other, a word that they have had the luxury of living with throughout their years. Though just a five-letter word Peace has more importance and more meaning to the world today as we find ourselves amongst a worldwide crisis. Today more than ever it’s easy to see all the bad things happening in the world. When the world watched as tensions between the United States and Iran people began to protest for peace. We as humans have a tendency to fight each other whether it is siblings arguing or entire continents divided. We still fight. Some fighting is justified in the grand scheme of things, but some are not. As I see it a majority of the fighting today is pointless and fueled by greed, hatred, and other factors. The greatest enemy to peace is right under our noses. This monster, this beast, the very thing in my eyes that makes people so eager to fight against each other is the idea that one person has to be right and that the other is automatically wrong