Peace in everyday life
Peace is not for the faint of heart. To ensure peace, you
have to work every second of life, there is no vacation or time out, unless you
are sleeping. For most, it is a goal to have your life and/or the world be in a
better place at the end of the day than it was when you woke up. How that day
goes is unknown. So, each day as you wake up, there is a mystery of what will
happen. That mystery can be a good thing, a bad thing or a bland thing. A
peaceful person understands that each reality needs to be met with a sense of
calm resolve.
For example, the day begins and you spill stuff on yourself.
Your clothes are in need of changing and you catch a hang nail that rips a good
chunk of skin off. Of course you bleed on the new clothing you just put on. A
few mad minutes of rushing to prepare to get out the door and you slip in the
puddle of stuff you had spilled earlier on yourself. The day is now a basket case
of shite. How do you stop from “losing your mind”? Then there are those that
have other people such as family involved while all the above takes place. How
do you keep from “losing it” on them as well. You still have to contend with everyone
else and the rest of the world. That is the struggle of every second to have
peace.
Meditation, yoga and other strategies are popular to help
with coping in times of stress. There is no doubt that the mental work to focus
in such times is not easy. As the cliché states, life does not get easier, you
just get better at managing yourself during such moments. In such situations each
person must find what works for them to ensure they act with calm resolve.
Keep in mind that there are no time outs or vacations from
peace. Even as you take your yoga sessions or meditations you are working to
manage your own peace. Now the tricky part comes when your style of peace is
not what is shared by another person standing in front of you. Peace needs to
evolve for both. This will ramp up the intensity of work to ensure peace.
As the intensity increases, the need to work towards peace
also increases. This is where many see those who advocate for peace as being weak.
Such a perception is as far away from the truth as a perception can get. To be
peaceful in such situation takes great skill and courage.
There will be perceptions of giving in at times yet the calm
resolve will allow you to see the longer play. Of course the reality of
insanity needs to be kept in check. For example a person is rushing at you with
the intent to destroy you. A completely peaceful person would be able to
understand that destruction of self is an absolute anyway so how can both
people engage in peace? For most of us, self preservation is paramount and the
insane person must “lose” in this circumstance. This reality is what is known
as war.
We have not figured out how to live without war yet and we
may never figure it out. At this moment in time, the world has slipped in the
stuff that was spilled on its clothes earlier as the dog barks, the children
cry, the phone is ringing and the bus you take to work just went by. Oh yeah,
that hang nail is still aching and bleeding. Have a nice day.
