All We Are Looking For Is Nothing Else But Peace
We looked for Peace however, we keep spying on others and fearing what people will write on their social media.
The people in the cities wanted so much to live in the countryside at some point in life. We wanted life to slow down a little bit for a breather. We packed and escaped the bustling city to the villages.
The people from the countryside or villages always had their eyes on the city life. To them, city life is what makes someone rich. It is a yardstick of measurement for progress and advance.
We are human beings who are never contented with what we have.
In the busy world where one lives in a country with high living cost, having 2 to 3 kids are already a handful to manage. There are parents whose stage in life goes back like a child. Dependent on grown-up children.
Days came when everyone grew older and the older ones before us bid goodbye to the world. The noise we had in our living environment decreased within our close circles. Soon, we all had peace.
Peace is good. But, not long enough, we will start to grow bored and purposeless. The exact word is lonely. One will wish there are many people around and hear the noise at home again.
Family politics which hurts so much became a relief when one by one left the world. It will be temporary. Soon that relief will be replaced by another anxiety, worry, or problem. Everything is temporary. Jobs, health, family, peace, problems, and so on.
That’s why we often hear our grandmothers and grandfathers saying the world is a temporary place.
Another story is about a person who married and had no children. Regardless he tried it many times or decided it is enough to live with a companion, as he aged one of them will go. Either he will go or she will bid goodbye. Loneliness set in again.
Life…
We have no absolute answer to everything. Marriage with kids or remaining single in marital status is a struggle especially when there are parents’ noises with family politics.
We wasted our energy with the in-laws’ politics we never wanted to be involved in. Who would declare their family politics or relatives enmity and all the troubles before marriage?
Everything is a stage of fake role play.
Right?
Yes. So, we will work and be competitive, grow our frenemies or enmity and screw up our hearts each time we meet. Then we will spend our money in the hospital waiting for death to take us at old age. Because we chose it this way.
Then we re-evaluate our life and think back where we had invested our energy. Into the competitive businesses, watching out people’s moves, but praying religiously and believing like a person having faith, but we are still restless.
We decided, at an older age, we are no longer chasing a ‘career’ because we do not have the energy like our younger days. Only then do we think about all we wanted is peace. Only then do we think of ways to make friends and not enemies.
We chose to be busy in the cities and to be rich, to be in power, to spy, to read content and see if an employee is safe to hire because we are afraid of our position being taken over? To retire and then spend our time in hospital with money given to the government.
What’s our actual purpose of living?
We had never-ending wants or needs or next thing on the list because we are never contented. We lived for the future and not in the present often. We keep looking out for self-efficacy and financial freedom. Because nothing makes us contented.
We have forgotten, all that we chase for is hidden in the truth that we need peace.
It is the peace that we are all looking for.
