The Bold Peace

Peace is not a specified destination; rather, it is the little intentional acts to smoothen a rough phase to go through the storm successfully. Given peace, one can navigate the worst seasons with little to no actual damage. Give the person the peace they need, and they will figure themselves out in the calmness that is enabled.

There are four aspects of peace:

The inner peace entails emotions, mental health, contentment, and gratitude. By controlling how you feel, you are in a position to protect your mental health, which is the most expensive part of yourself. Also, by being content and grateful for everything in your life, you achieve a certain sense of peace that people get robbed of by comparing lives and pressuring themselves just to fit in or prove how capable they are.

Social peace is what the community is doing to address social justice, solve conflicts, and enable equality to ensure humans co-exist peacefully. This is important to thrive outwardly. You need to be able to access things without the fear of attack or intimidation whatsoever. At times, attaining social peace means being at the forefront fighting for it or sitting back and ignoring the social part of peace and doing you.

Environmental peace emphasizes the need for humans to act accordingly with climate change for stability to live peacefully. This kind of peace tends to have the most challenges while in the quest to achieve it, and that is because the weather tends to be unpredictable, causing environmental changes. They say adjustment is the rule of survival. Choose to thrive even in what you have no control over; it is a strength that more of you can't always have what you want, yet you can grow through everything. That preparedness gives room for adjustment, which in turn enables stability even in chaos. Make peace with what you can’t change entirely.

Peace as a process, to achieve peace, you have to keep growing, no matter the situation at hand, build bridges, be empathetic, and forgive where needed, not because you're okay with what was done to you, but because you need all the peace you can get to live happily. People, at times, will sabotage your peace, but it is up to you to reach for it because you know its value and place in your life.

All four aspects of peace complement one another, so protect what you have while working to attain what you don’t have yet need.

Everything is revolving around peace because without peace, you’re actually existing, so to live, you have to be at peace. Sometimes you have to unlearn habits, break bonds, burn bridges, cut off people, and at times isolate yourself because it is the price to be at peace. You’re human, so do what's best for you fr your peace of mind, not because you don’t value what you have, but because its presence takes much from you. People will adjust, but once you lose yourself over the absence of peace, getting your sanity back is expensive and there is no guarantee, so while you have it, protect it like the most expensive, fragile, and valuable thing it is.