1) CATEGORY: YOUTH.

2) ESSAY TITLE: BUILDING PEACE IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS.

3) NAME: UGWU ONYEDIKACHI DARRELBRIAN
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BUILDING PEACE IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS.

Just my fingertips can feel the hesitance as I type this texts, maybe not but
somehow I feel Im answering a question that surpasses a height of the
usual thinking ;Is Peace possible, Does absolute peace depict a state of
mind that we all can or will successfully live with, in our present day
society ,or Are there truly some entirely expedient modules that can be
instilled in the minds of the many desensitized citizens aimed towards
peaceful living and its pursuit ?
Peace, described by a school of thought to be an absolutely positive
value-moral, fulfilling, enduring and dynamic is undoubtedly a far cry from
our global standpoint but ultimately ,I accept as true that the very primal
task of we the citizens of the world, if we are to be the progenitors of this
non-violent and gratifying era, is simply an awareness of this duty and
possessing a positive consciousness around it, a responsibility to build and
sustain this promise land that is envisioned.
I am proud to tell of my two charming male cousins that I am usually left at
home to give care to at moments when theres no one else to do so, and it
tickles my sense of achievement even more, reminiscing that series of my
spontaneous imaginary tales and poems formed these kids into products of
brotherly love and peaceful attitudes from their usual violent ways they
played, these poems, although where made up, but with consistency, and
somewhat a believe that I was responsible for not just their security but
their best behavior ,which was something I ensured they maintained in and
out of home. And from their parents, their gratitude,I bore like the Nobel
Peace Prize for leading fighting states from their discrepancies.
Like this , if peace is to be our cultured way of life, its edification is one
pivotal prerequisite in this time where peace is feared extinct, there has to
be a portfolio of peace-ware programs and policies cropping from the sole
goal of making individuals -both developing to the matured beings
increasingly aware in a concerned and sensitive manner of the virtue and
even the undeniable positivity it is associated with.
From a real-time telescope, as our current orb of a planet typifies one
disillusioned with mind-structures rooted in diverse anti-peace practices

that are embraced by both the media and its tentacles rendering our lives
and living a little too harsh for an idea as subtle as peace to germinate
from.
Again, feeling the heat from recent airstrikes, abductions and other shades
of hostilities by rebellious entities across the globe with their respective
ideologies that decay the minds of the soft at will,the attainment of peace
is debatable, but believing individually in the godliness of mankind
Gandhi assures ;that no matter how worse, it get better from just the right
steps ,first identified then applied.
However, If peace is to be enabled, its envisagement is to be adjusted from
entirely religious into an accepted way of life and reinforced by ideas
fashioned towards it.
As part of this collective exercise ,it is vital to recognize that the youngest
members of the society are to be of major attention, as truly, speaking of
building non-violence in our decisions and choices for a peaceful future is,
in more comprehensive terms, entails channeling the thoughts of both prenursery and high school students into believing that just a peaceful
environment is what the world needs now, ensuring that they know and
accept that Bruce Lees kicks and the entire world of Wrestlemania is
much more appreciated behind the rolling tape of a video camera and not
to be practiced, as this expresses war in infancy.
As Gandhi affirms Morality is contraband in war ,it is expected that at
some hour ,someday, Peace will prevail in the minds of a moral society.
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