Imagine Peace

Is it to naïve of me to think of a world living in peace?  Just as I write it, I can think of a hundred ways as to why this sounds so cliché.  Though is it, can it be simple to imagine peace on a larger scale collectively and live in a peaceful world?  I heard someone say recently "Imagine if we woke up to the news in the morning, announcing that there is world peace".  "What?"  as I mulled this thought over, "what?"  I said to myself "Can we do that?" I guess we can.  That announcement would be the most relaxing, tranquil statement known to man, known to me.  Imagine waking up with a clear statement such as this, that we are now living in peace.  Is this even wise?  Can we actually live in peace as a human race?  Or is it just a forever fantasy.  Could this even be achieved.  Of course I like to think so, the thought is so fantastic!

I've grown up watching the many and abundant beauty pageant's growing up as a young girl, where every contestant talked of world peace altogether almost in a rhythmic tone.  "World peace, yes, I pray for world peace".  I hope for it.  But is it real, can it honestly be attained, or is it just a wish, as one would for the tooth fairy to show up on time.  The thought of world peace resonates amazing.  It feels like we would succeed at being peaceful.  But you can not fight for world peace and still be peaceful.  Peaceful in your heart, yes, peaceful in your mind, yes, within your home-there is some understanding of that, but on a global scale.  I'm not as sure, but am hopeful.

Attaining the peace we so want to conquer may then need to be evaluated.  Possibly imagining peace in our world, feeling how it would sound to hear that; YES, we have found World peace on the radio- would it be that easily transmitted through, to our imaginations, then through out our lives.  If we can see it, it can be-is not that what they say.  If you can see it, believe it.  As somewhat of a visionary, I think I will opt to imagine World peace and feel what and how that would be like.  The thought being as magnetic as it sounds, is possibly just a thought to imagine. 

What though, if we all imagined living in peace, every day for a year.  Yes, ever person in the World, given the assignment per say of imagining peace, for one year.  If everyone did, could it then be achieved, as we then see it through our minds eye.  If we did, could we become peaceful?  Instead of walking angrily (if once we were) would we then imagine it so that peace actually does start and penetrate from within?  Is that peace.  Imagining it is peaceful in itself, if everyone did this practice in a meditative way-could we then achieve it inside out?  Maybe?

Feeling that calm after imagining peace, is a pureness of delight I never knew existed.  Feeling that sit with me through out the last days, I felt much more at ease, almost as a surrender.  To be a peaceful society, we too then would most likely have to become that peace.  If we can imagine it, think, then believe it to be, is not the only last step towards peace -action?  Thoughts lead us this way, could anyone imagine peace for one year, everyday to grow to this personal level of peace.  To not just imagine it, but to breath it daily.  To have it so that peace is the only thing left to actually achieve as we fight for every other injustice.  Spending five minutes imagining the thought of peace and how a nation or society would look as a peaceful nation is bliss.  Could that simple technique bring about peace finally?

We have been discussing this topic for some time now.  I know this because of the beauty pageant girls vowing to bring this peace along with their success as a Miss so and so.  I am sure since then, since I was a young girl looking up to these models, that we have at least wanted some ounce of peace.  I am going to imagine it, it alone gives me a sense of peace.  Could it be that simple?