"You who is afraid of wars
Tell me where does peace come from"
Ait Menguellet, Kabyle poet and singer.
Tell me where does peace come from"
Ait Menguellet, Kabyle poet and singer.
It’s easy to imagine a world where violence between nations was almost forgotten and conflicts were always solved by negotiations and following previous agreements. See what the EU accomplished: can anyone imagine, say, Germany go to war with France today, even considering the history of those countries.
Yes, I’m afraid of wars! I don’t want my children dying alone in the cold mud. I don’t want my grandchildren crying of fear in a shelter. I don’t want our prosperity used to build tanks and airplanes instead of building schools and hospitals and fight climate change.
It's like in the story written by Khalil Gibran where a pastor passed by an injured Satan who asked for his help and to not let him die.
In the beginning, the pastor refused because Satan is the enemy of humankind, he's behind everything bad that happens to us. By the end, the pastor helped the wounded Satan because without him, the pastor's job and social status can not even exist.
Without the Satan/War/Bad there is no Pastor/Peace/Good. And vice versa.