Most people long for peace over war. Luckily.
We send money to international aid organizations.
We protest.
We petition the government.
We elect officials who we hope will make peace-preserving decisions.
We do not enforce mandatory military service.
As society, we most certainly seem to respect an individual's right to desire and promote peace. But have we taken on too global of a perspective when it comes to war? While we strive to promote international peace and improved relations between warring factions on different continents, more local wars seem to fly under the radar.
Our very lives have become wars in their own right.
We fight to get through school so that we might better handle the adversity of finding a job. We eagerly engage in a career-long battle for money so that we may retire and watch our children do the same. And these are only the "bigger" personal wars. Small, daily struggles consume our lives, often in a war-like fashion.
We are anxious to put an end to large-scale foreign wars, yet we don our own warpaint each morning, ready to step into battle.
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