Achieving the "Impossible"

Achieving the "Impossible"

Albert Einstein once said, “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” I believe that in his words we can find two key elements towards achieving peace, which would be “by force” and “to understand.”

It is a fact that we cannot hold on to peace by means of force such as armies and weapons because the very existence of these put in danger and go against what peace stands for. Now, people may think that they can’t live without these “essential” things for survival, but that is not true; in fact, there is already a country in the world that has dismantled its army. Costa Rica understood that its land, people, and natural resources were far more important than fire power and so it took all the funding of its army away to preserve what really matters.

We can follow Costa Rica’s example into the other key element, which is “to understand.” Just as they did, we need to understand each other and the place where we live. We cannot imagine the positive effects that would come out with just a little bit more communication between us. Many persons would think that peace is impossible to achieve, but they are wrong; in fact, thinking that way is what makes it impossible. We all just have to understand, respect, and love each other and then we will start moving in a direction towards peace.

I hope that I get to see a peaceful world in a near future and of course I will do my best every day to put a part in to making this happen. One way to start changing is doing a random act of kindness or following the “Golden Rule”: One should treat others as one would like others to treat one. With these two actions we’ll start changing the way we live little by little. I know that peace may be a hard thing to achieve but we must not lose sight of our goal and we must keep faith that all humanity will understand each other and achieve peace some day.