P e a c e

 

What is peace? How is it defined? In a world where reality itself is relative? An ambiguity in definition is only to be expected. Spiritual Gurus suggest that peace is largely intrinsic of individuals. That it is important for one to be "at peace with oneself". Or they'll give you jargon about karmic waves. Some others, who are mere mortals, might call a peaceful day, one when they didn't have arguments with their spouses or catfights with their colleagues. The Prime Minister of India is himself probably very distraught with trying to choose which one is affecting his peace more: Prakash Karat & Mamata Bannerji, or the Indian Mujaheddin. (No. I'm not comparing the two. While one is working for the people, the other is just killing them. I'm only trying to establish that it is difficult to tell which one is personally flustering Manmohanji more). A peaceful day, for a teenager in Kashmir, is mostly one where he can attend classes at school without being disturbed by gun-fire and bombs.

The ONE THING WE ALL AGREE UPON, though, is that whatever it is, Peace is not something we currently have in the World.

Peace, to me, is a hypothetical concept. Call me a pessimist; call me a cynic. Tell people who are calling me these names that they're making gross understatements. I will continue to comprehend Peace to be a complete myth. Excuse me for using Physics as an analogy, but the disorderliness of the Universe will continue to increase consistently, for eternity. That's just how it is. It's an infinite negative spiral. There will always be people with conflicting ideas, however significant or insignificant, and the human brain is hardwired to put up a fight for what it wants. A completely peaceful World is like Absolute Zero. We all want it to happen, we've all tried different ways to bring it about, and even those of us that accept it to be an impossibility do so very grudgingly. Besides, it's all relative to other things, which are in-turn relative to other things. So we'll never know what peace really is, because we'll never see it happen. The key to survival, is to simply accept the idea that it's wrong to waste effort attempting to bring about world peace (something I was willing to dedicate my life to, until very recently), because the thing is just an unfulifillable dream. A fascinating illusion. No more; no less.

 

Que Sera Sera. So carry a firearm on your person. That's if, for some reason, you actually WANT to live to see another day. I don't know why anybody'd want to do that, but I guess some of you are still fooled by the rumour that tomorrow will be better.