On War

Since the beginning of time,the human race has always been engaged on some form of war. Wars between families, between countries,within countries, between religions.....we’ve even waged war with Mother Nature.It seems that warfare has become more of a condition rather than an exception.Trigger happy folk who see the gun, the grenade or the machete as the ONLY WAY to resolution.Many psychological theories state that the need for war is innate to human nature. This school of thought says that the act of war is an extension of animal behaviour ie : territoriality and competitiveness. The need to conquer foreign land and to rule sovereign over all else. The need to create superhuman races, even if this means wiping out entire populations of a people with reckless abandon. It all boils down to human pride and arrogance...possibly bordering on insanity. Even 'wars' that have presumably noble intentions end up being lost causes. That very fine line between the good that people fight for and the bad that people fight against gets smudged out in the process and in the end all you have is a tit for tat thing going on between two or more parties.....a vicious cycle that perpetuates throughout the centuries.As pessimistic as this is going to sound, I don't think that there will ever be a day... (I'm not even going for a week)..... I don't think there will be just ONE day where all the nations of the world will be at peace with one another. There'll always be someone causing a revolt for change, someone wanting revenge,someone wanting more......world domination if that were possible. Its the human condition....we covet that we cannot have and the more we have the more we yearn for. Satisfaction and gratitude seems to be concepts that elude the human race. The only way we can hope to heal the world is to heal ourselves first.

As Mahatma Gandhi so eloquently once said “ We have to be the change we wish to see in the world”