Love and Peace

“ It’s perhaps well to ask in what direction we want to move in you can be filled with bitterness and with hatred and a desire for revenge or we can make an effort to comprehend and replace that violence and stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land with an effort to understand compassion and love”

- This love Album “At War”

Tonight I saw the BEST movie of the year The Help the setting is back in the 1960s when segregation was taking place. As I watched the movie all I could see was hate. Hate for color, popularity, body shape, and means. The movie was based off a novel. I have never read it, but the movie put it in pretty good perspective. I am always appalled from the hatred that was in the 60s. Whether it is through history, interviews, or family who were alive during those times. If we take a look at today there is still segregation going on other places around the world. What do we think about when we say:

Hispanic.

Muslim.

Republican.

Democrat.

Catholic.

Mormon.

Homosexual.

Really what goes through your thoughts?  You don’t have to answer a loud, but just think about it. Recently I have been listening to a band who is not commonly known, but their latest album is about war and it has had me thinking a lot about what has gone on for so many years, HATE. I have a friend who used to say “Why can’t people just learn to love” or “If there is one thing I could change in the world it would be for everyone to love each other” and the more and more this comes up it makes me think…why can’t we? Life would be so much more tolerable. But we must overcome the past. Move on and love. I know I am having a hippie moment. Love and peace, but really is that really so much to ask. I wanted to end with a speech that is quoted in the album, I do not know who is speaking, but the words are ones I will never forget.

“…Too many of us think it is impossible, too many think it in unreal, but that is a dangerous defeatus belief … I am not referring to the absonaite infinite concept  of universal peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement  and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal this generation has already had enough of war and hate for in the final analysis  our most basic  common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.”

-This Love Album “At War”

If we don’t start in small ways to love and leave out hate…what world are we leaving for our children? I’m not saying we have to hug everyone, but don’t be quick to judge and let us leave the past behind us and start building a better future!