(Part 1) War is never the answer... Peace is.

I believe that there are some universal truths.  Among those, one is very strong and very universal:  Like Attracts Like.  I have learned over and over in my own life that this is true.  What I know...

• Miserable people don't attract happy people (for obvious reasons) - and happy people don't allow miserable people to affect them.  But happy people do attract other happy people and misery loves company.
• "Do unto others as you would have done unto you"  There's a simple biblical take on Like Attracts Like.  Want to be treated with love, respect, kindness?  Then treat others the same way.
• If you think about or worry about something, it is very likely that it will come to pass. 
• Doing things the same way will always garner the same results.  So many people fail to realize this and they continue to hope for change but their behavior never changes.  They do this over and over and suffer mounting disappointment.  To change your outcome, you must also change your actions.
• "Fake it till you make it" works.  Want to feel better?  Happier?  More confident?  Act like you already are and your body/mind/cells will follow.
• Smile and people will find you to be more approachable, bringing more smiles to you in return.  Smile Attracts Smile.
• Fear getting sick and you will get sick.  

This is certainly enough of a list to get my point across.  But the real reason for this list and this post is to ask why, why, WHY can't we learn as a human race that WAR does not create PEACE?  

War Attracts War.  

War attracts hatred, fear, anger, defensiveness, retaliation, wrong action. 

Peace Attracts Peace.  

Peace is made of and creates more love, compassion, hope, understanding, openness.

War is never the answer.  

Peace always is.

The question, then, must be HOW do we create peace in the world?    I know how I work to create peace, how do you create peace in your world?   It is those same ways that will create peace between nations, between peoples and across the entire world.  But we must start now.  Wars have been fought since one man realized that he could fight for something he wanted rather than finding a way of obtaining something through love and cooperation with another human being.  If, for thousands of years, war has never "worked" (as evidenced by the massive amounts of war and hatred that still exist in the world today) then perhaps it is finally time to try a new approach that is not based in war.  Inciting more fear and hatred will only waste time, resources, energy and worst of all, human lives.

...It is not coincidental that I just heard a newscaster say the words "not a significant number of lives have been lost" since the bombing began in Lybia.  I'm afraid I've never met a living soul whose life wasn't significant.  Mine is.  Yours is.  We are all significant.

PEACE.  It's a UNIVERSAL song: