Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

– Albert Einstein

Frankly, I am getting tired of adding all these incredibly awesome quotes from famous people, who I think gave a little too much to the world and its people, who in their own cocked-up stupidity least deserve it. This goes to men, women and all the people equally. Quotes are being thrown around everywhere these days, by people who claim to be serving for the greater good, but with little or no action followed in reality. Even awards are being thrown around to anyone and everyone.

Peace is a subject easier said than done. And this I have critically and effectively (or should I say defectively) sensed enormously in the past few months than any other time in my entire life so far. The word ‘peace’ is almost a pitching-tool for people from various calibers and fields to get things done faster. And those who recognize this and unfold their lies are automatically ‘rude’; obviously right?

What is peace? Have you ever set aside a portion of time from your so-called busy life and thought over this weighing subject in ‘peace?’

While there are incredible and inspiring icons of peace like Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi fighting for peace in the truest sense, who truly deserve the noble prize; beautiful-soul humanitarians like Angelina Jolie showing the world what beauty really means, I doubt if people even understand their efforts.

Peace is not something relative to only an individual, or a group of people, or nation, or even the international. Peace, like how Einstein quoted, cannot be kept by force but by only understanding. So my question is – Do you understand peace?

Did you think peace is something that needs to be solved over a high-tension international border or in a glamorous event with a well-dressed delegate? Did you suppose that only the respected, honorable, sri sri sri kind of leaders have to sit and work to bring peace to all the others? Or are you simply expecting more noble peace icons to rise and give you some more quotes to post on your social media, which has fashioned almost as important as world peace these days? The second question is – What would it take to wake you up?

You cannot find peace unless all those homeless kids and their families are well sheltered, fed and educated just as you… You cannot find peace while you think your nation is far better than another, but don’t even pause before confronting when another does the same to you… You cannot find peace unless an employer stops exploiting his employee, who loses his peace and then goes back home to suck his family’s peace… You cannot find peace while you think what your religion said was at the utmost certainty, while you don’t even care about the purpose of that same religion… You cannot find peace unless those weekly-predicting astrology dupes stop manipulating their believers… You cannot find peace unless you realize that buying useless ‘things’ to impress useless people in your life is redundant… And we are definitely not in peace if we are still living in a world where young children are restricted from education, play, security, and comfort. Peace should start and dwell within, then around you, then over national borders and then maybe if we are lucky, the whole world.

Peace, in any language, still means peace.

Savoring a remarkable trip to Southern China recently, I captured the above photograph with my camera in the International Commerce Center building; the tallest building in Hong Kong. And I have to do a little thought-experiment here with my readers to see what thoughts run in your minds when you look at it. With most of the major languages of the world included, does the priority and the pride of seeing your own native language on the window display overshadow the real meaning of the word? In other words, are you looking to see if and where your so-called language stands in the list and care about “Who has got the bigger guns?” If so, then you have completely missed the point.

According to me, and here yet again I am presenting my ‘key’ of prepositions to this thick, fat ‘lock’ of problem, that if and really the world cares about peace, then it needs to be initiated not by pointing out other’s weaknesses, but by helping each other overcome one another’s.

I personally think the only best way to attain world peace is not by poking guns on weaker ones to tell them who is the boss, or who is right (peace cannot be kept by force), but by simply stepping into their shoes and being perceptive to their problems and trying to solve them with your purported might (it can only be achieved by understanding).

I mean, imagine India launching the co-called ‘swachh’ campaign in one of China’s dirtiest villages; and China launching some ‘yin-yang’ campaign or something in one of India’s dirtiest localities, which could be nothing but a prospective idea of creating both modern infrastructures balanced with greenery plantation, just like a yin-yang? And if India craves a greater challenge, it could also launch a campaign to clean one of Africa’s Ebola struck and poverty-ridden villages, while some other countries like America or Japan could clean India’s at the same time. The main aim is to share other’s problems, rather than beating your heads on your own. That would at least to some extent give nations a chance to understand the world as a whole, and look towards the future as one and not divided. And yes, if you haven’t noticed, I have deliberately not shown the beam of enlightenment on the tried-and-tired peace gist that we call – India and Pakistan. Because I know as soon as I do that, which most people do and have been doing since I don’t know how many decades, the real purpose of this blog-post will be instantly vaporized and ignorant, deluded baboons everywhere in the world will start ranting about who did what in which year and why the neighbor is meant to be an everlasting blood-enemy. Just shut the F up!

Having the deepest respect towards India’s father of the nation, I must insist and press on the fact that Mahatma Gandhi, being the greatest symbol of peace in the world might have given a little too much of his efforts to the world filled with absolute idiots. But if the greatest symbol of peace lived in today’s world, I am utterly sure that he would have by now realized that one can not teach tricks to the baboon the same way one would to a lion. And sure, go ahead, turn around and check your tails to see which one you belong to because I might be starting to doubt the impeccable leeway of our society’s ability to be at least that much smart enough to understand my sarcasm.

John Lennon said that ‘life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.’ So the world should not confuse itself that it is making plans for future world-peace, while at the ‘present’ all we are doing is hate. Remember, life is now. So now ‘imagine’ all the people, living life in peace? You may say I'm a dreamer, but I am not the only one.

John Lennon's 'Imagine.'

And if and when the world joins us and finds peace, I would in my personal consideration persevere that the above song should become the globally accepted international-anthem that we would all sing together.

Also with my sincere, inevitable and slightly growing irritation, I would want to spill a jar of ice as I sit my tempered mind on it, letting you know that only he who lugs a gun in his hands is not called a warrior of peace. A warrior, with the truest reason in his/her heart, could be someone who might be holding a microphone, a book, a guitar, a camera, a computer, a football, a brush, a steering wheel, a pair of scissors, a scalpel, or even a pen. And to all you proud ranting puppets, if you ever find some fresh air away from those invisible strings attached, I would like to kindly suggest you not to make the mistake of branding peaceniks as some soft-core cheek-kissers; we too know how to ‘funk’ you in the right hole if needed.

And just because I talk about peace, don’t presume that I don’t like the idea or the visual delight of boom-boom. I am personally a big fan of action movies and adventurous stunt-sequences in films. I am tempted to raise from my chair every time a ballistic missile shoots to its target; when a speeding car-race turns into furiously fast heist; when spaceships hover above, blowing populated cities; when you are given a trigger-happy gun with unlimited supply of ammunition; when 5th or 6th generation fighters make impossible maneuvers over war skies. But I also realized that these unnecessary bloodbath settings are only fun when you are munching on your popcorn in a theater or when you are tapping those buttons on your PlayStation controller. Because, in real life, it’s humanely painful when real people die; don’t you think?

Then again, not all is bad. With some recent international bonding; almost like some romantic comedy, leaders of the world are hugging and kissing and showering all the love there is. Wow, I have a tear in my eye.

And lastly, I would like to share a matter of my personal concern that I had to inevitably deal with since the beginning of this year. With my motto for the year 2015 being “Resurrection,” I think it’s applicable that I have deleted my Twitter account recently. Wow, Twitter… You must have been created by God himself to help all those lost souls find that moment of peace; showcasing a split-personality of what they are not, but what they ‘wannabe.’ For me, when I wake up in the morning, sipping my morning drink and tweeting a few words was almost like a meditation. And it was my way of giving something little more to my faithful readers, who actually ‘buy’ my books and make me a ‘billionaire.’ I was savoring some interesting pictographic images in my mind of beautiful ladies around the world reading my tweets and giving me fly-kisses. But don’t know why, suddenly, from past few weeks, I have been having these wide-awake nightmares of some hideous, over-grown baboons (those who claim the young-generation is gone bad and they are always right) reading my tweets and misusing it; acting like as if they have won the treasure. They read everything; understand something; think nothing, and then go and apply it on rubbish things. Somebody please censor and blur-out their faces in real life please; it’s offending me.

Haha… So, I have decided that while my twitter is shut down, my recent tweets, which are worth my readers, need not have to die. I mean, it’s almost like you stop j***ing off, just because you broke up with your girlfriend. And yes, I just censored my own words and I feel like I am God. Wow, no wonder people enjoy doing it.

Peace, for your kind information, cannot also be achieved unless people are allowed to freely express their creative talent to make the world a better place.

And to keep my recent tweets alive and living, because they say words have a life of their own, here are some of my recent tweets. But since I am now presenting it on my blog, I think it should be called – Blots. Hoping, my ‘blots’ would make my readers smile and bring them some inner-peace.

• Everybody wants the ‘truth,’ but nobody wants to chew-over the importance of being ‘honest.’
• While some assume ignorance is bliss; the bliss itself is ignorance.
• The number of followers on twitter, or in life, does not make you better than anyone. Hitler had millions; Jesus had twelve.
• Good governance is not ‘displaying’ power over the masses; good governance is ‘building’ power among the masses.
• Sometimes, when I am meditating, I fly like a super-hero.
• Real eyes realize real lies.
• Thank life for not only what you have, but also for what you don’t; because, in the end, everything is balanced.
• Grades don't measure intelligence; age doesn’t define maturity.
• If my words are so ‘irrelevant,’ why would it make such a ‘relevant’ impact on your mind? You must be a special kind of idiot.
• Even monkeys don’t have time to ‘snoop’. They are busy eating bananas.
• Young kids are being subjected to child-labor; being raped; killed, and here we whine that we had a ‘hard-day’?
• If you want love, you must first learn to love.
• The marvelous thing about poetry is that everyone is free to understand it in their own way.
• I am not an activist; not a feminist; not a freedom-fighter; I am just a ‘human.’ Too bad your ‘inhumane’ eyes couldn’t notice it.
• Some do right for the wrong reasons; some do wrong for the right reasons. Don’t be fooled.
• It’s impossible to be conscious of being unconscious.

And with all my empathy towards all the people in this world who seek peace over war, I would be gladly contented if this blog-post made people laugh at my sarcasm and forget all the hate and wars of the world, even if it was just for a brief few minutes. Let there be a glossy lip-line smile for all. – Girish Rathna

Also, here is a little extra for all my beautiful followers, who are becoming beautiful in life day by day.

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