commitments

Long and short term commitments toward peace… In a short term, I want to be a gentleman, as corny as it may sound. Currently I see men caring very little in helping women putting their grocery bags in their cars, ceding a parking space for them, opening the doors for them among other things of which I don’t remember right now.  By doing this I hope I motivate others that could see me to do the same. A long term commitment would be to help the poor and the environment, which is why I am studying environmental science, we are destroying the world and I would like to help out to reduce or find a solution to our environmental problems. I plan to study in Costa Rica to work in the University of Peace, hopefully that works out for me.

Inner Peace??

Inner peace is achieved when we leave time for ourselves to meditate and to analyze. Sometimes we dedicate so much time to our cell phones, our social networks, our music along with other things that we leave no time for ourselves and even we leave ourselves with very little sleep at night. This only causes us to be irritated and bothered this I say only through personal experience. Also to have inner peace I believe that we must recognize that materialistic things will not make us entirely happy, some people base their happiness in their possessions and if they do not have what they want their world comes crashing down, they should be able to be thankful that they have a cell phone that works, a roof to live under, food every day and of course education, something that many people fight for day by day in other parts of the world, in other words, many people lack humbleness. Last but not least, we should be able to respect and love one another. Take into consideration how we want to be treated so that we could be treated the same by others. Being a humble and loving person I believe inner peace could be accomplished.

OP-ED

Peace, little by little seems to be making itself less present as the years go by, local news mention robberies and assassinations frequently. People of the same neighborhood, ethnicity and even of the same level of income conflict harm on each other, only to cause peace to be unheard and unseen.

Sadly though these acts of violence will seem to go on and will not be halted by police force or through military in extreme circumstances, but through the education that is received at home. It is true that at school we obtain much of our scholarly education but morals and habits are acquired through family members.

The Spanish organizations of E.O.E.P. and E.A.T. reinstate that parents should be aware that their child’s education at home is of vital importance, since it is fundamental for the development of healthy habits. We are able to see that these healthy habits though seem to be fading away. Having various family members working as teachers in high school and middle schools, they constantly compare their days as children to the children of today. They say that the children of today disobey, ignore, insult and irritate teachers as if they were dealing with another child. Seeing this, one could imagine how their parents treat and educate them at home.

Going on a bigger scale, according to National Public Radio, drug cartels are using young children as couriers, lookouts and even assassins.  Instead of living a life in which they are playing and learning they live one that is lured by the desire of power. They are invited to participate in such inhumane acts because they are offered large amounts of money for someone’s head or for smuggling drugs across cities and borders.

This could be taking part because there is not a loving environment at home; there are parents who might not care about the activities that their children are doing or who do not care about educating them in being proper and polite. Children that insult and are disrespectful could easily be scolded and told that such behavior is not correct. As it is said, children are like sponges and mirrors, they absorb and learn from everything that they see and they imitate what others do, so if the parents use bad words, have negative attitudes and bad habits, the child might as well end up doing the same thing, thinking that is a normal thing to do.

Home is an important place for the development of a child. The love that he/she receives at home is of vital importance, no form of affection could cause for the young one to search for other means of happiness, among them drugs and alcohol among other things.

I believe couples should really analyze if they are ready to have children, if they will be capable of giving them the required attention that they so much need. They should be able to see if they are also willing to let go of bad habits and/or behavior for the well being of their sons and daughters.

Education starts at home, if there is love and affection within family members, there would not be any need for the children to stray away into bad pathways.  The need to join cartels for money would not be necessary for all the things that will be needed (not necessarily wanted) will be supplied by the parents. Bad behavior, language and expressions would also be wiped away because parents will teach good manners.  All of this would then be reflected out into society and undoubtedly the world would be a bit more peaceful.