My Goals for peace

This will be a short entry....
For my short term goal:
The goal is to finish school so I can start teaching and opening children’s lives and minds for the better.

For the long term goal:
The goal is continue to leave my life in peace and to help those that are in need of help. That job will never end, so there are many adventures to be had.

Inner Peace

For me inner peace has been a long time coming. Because I have had a troubled past, for many years it was hard for me to control my anger. This became a bigger problem as I got older. One day I just had enough of the anger that cruised through my veins, and I finally decided that it done.

Since then I have dealt heavily into meditation. I was trying to be able to control and lessen my anger. Fortunately, it has worked wonderfully. I no longer have short fuse and can control what anger I do have. Since now I was able to be in peace with myself I was ready to bring peace to others. At community college I meet a great teacher by the name of Allah Salama, he teaches philosophy. From him I learned to rhetoric and was able to express my thought without involving emotions.

I have begun a new life recently where I am free of prejudice to others and to myself. I have found my inner peace. I am now the happiest I have ever been in my entire life and that means a lot when your happiest moments are in college, where the most stress is. I know that my quest for complete inner peace is not complete. But at least now I am certain that whatever the world throws at me I can face it and survive it.

That is my definition for inner peace- No matter what is thrown at me I and those around me will come with our heads held high.  I know it’s not the end but it will be a fun ride.  I hope that others around the world will one day find their own inner peace, whatever it maybe.

Where in the world is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

If someone told you to find Iran on a map could you actually find it?  The amount of knowledge some Americans have about our political dealings in the Middle East could probably fill up a small soap dish.  This is the kind of disinterested attitude towards global politics that makes for a bad game.

Even though the country is in a recession, the United States spends an insurmountable amount of money in its wars.  According to the Washington Post the 2010 estimation is at 3 trillion dollars.  That is more than even the Monopoly guy has in his own bank.  The normal citizen is struggling to survive and yet it was the normal citizen that enthusiastically allowed the funding for these conflicts.

Polls have showed that an immense amount of people cannot identify countries where the U.S is currently involved.  This is a bad strategy for Risk, who could ever win?

 Even late night television has picked up on the common person’s inability to identify countries and their leaders.  Yes, the answers given can be hilarious but it also shows ineptitude of the commonwealth.

The game of life has been turn upside down.  Budgets have been slashed throughout the board.  The education system has been dealt a big blow.  $800 million is the total budget cut for Texas according to the National Conference of State Legislature.  How are teachers supposed to teach when they don’t have jobs?  It seems that this situation creates a vicious cycle.       

This is literally a deadly game of ring around the rosy.  First children are not instilled with a sense of political awareness by teachers that are not there.  When these uneducated children grow up, they either do not vote at all or have very little understanding of candidate issues.  When inadequate politicians are voted in and problems happen the one that ends up paying is the uneducated voter.

 

The unending cycle will ultimately affect peace in a great way.  The saying goes as “knowledge is power”.  Knowledge seems to be the key to winning the game.  If people could only get interested in researching politics they would truly understand what they can do.

Now if knowledgeable people were the norm then a bridge towards peace could be easily built.  A set of Lego’s would be harder to set up than peace.  The answer seems to be like child’s play. 

People need to have an understanding of global politics.  Peace even though it is extremely complicated can be easy to initiate.  Just like any board game it all begins with knowing the rules of the game.  That’s how you win the game of peace. 

The question to you then is.  Can you find on a map the country where Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lives?

Audience: National