Peace

[DoubleStar3]

I was wondering what everyone thought of 'making your peace with this world.' I ask this as I wonder if it's just weird or wrong of me to say that at the age of 22 that I've made my peace with this earth. I actually laid down last week and thought exactly that as I waited for the pain to go away so that I could fall asleep. Since then part of me feels as if I'm waiting to die, or for Fate to make up it's mind on what I'm suppose to be doing here. I use to be the person who always said 'Never Lose Hope'. and for the longest time that kept me going. I would try to keep a speck of it around, and I tried to live my life to it's fullest. That's what a 22 year old should be doing, right? so somehow when this whole concept came over me it just felt weird. I left go of the hope a long time ago, and almost feel lost as to what I do next. So I just wanted to know what others thought on it all.

[Tiamot]

I've found that in some situations, hope is a fragile thing to cling to. That in itself does not lessen it's merits, supposedly. I think there comes a point in a person's life, when we stop 'never losing hope' and actually give up for a time. Oh beleive me, my dear, this I have done so many times. What comes of it, however, is not the complete end (no never that) but a period of intense self examination. Don't regret the hard times, instead, learn what you can of them. This may be a time in your life where its come to the point of needing to take a look inside. Turning inward in times of extreme stress can be sanctuary for some, horror for others. Send me a PM, hon, if you ever need someone to talk to. *hugs*

[Teej]

I'm just going to say that as sad as it is that you feel like there is no hope anymore, at least you've made peace because many people don't. I guess every cloud does have a silver lining, or at least most of them. Maybe you can find hope in that.

Sorry, not very inspiring or understandable. Even I don't really understand what I type sometimes.

[War Wolf]

Something I've found in this life is that you need to have a basic focus, something that you believe in and hold to when you think you have nothing left. Most people don't ever find or admit to themselves that thing, that one duty, job, idea, activity, be it emotional, physical, or spiritual in nature, that makes them most happy and content in life. Not to mean that you have no free will, far from it, you can be anything you wish to be, it's just that there manytimes is a choice you can make that will help you live a happier life.
I, for example, am a warrior and guardian. That is what makes me happiest and gives me that charge out of life that makes it worth living. Some people are naturely builders, scientists, docters, nurses, or ambassadors. That is what they love doing and have found a meaning in life from their particular chosen duty. Most times, the best way to find what you truly love and will be able to put all your heart and soul into is to never fully give up hope, and be willing to accept a new idea. Always look at the world with a fresh, young mind combined with the experences of your years.
In the end though, it is up to you. These are just my beliefs. I can't tell you what you should do or how to live; no one can tell you what that if you are willing to stand tall for yourself and what you believe in.

[Hybrid]

I left go of the hope a long time ago, and almost feel lost as to what I do next. So I just wanted to know what others thought on it all.

Live YOUR life. If you desire something, go out and do what it is you must do to make it happen. Don't sit around with meaningless thoughts of hopelessness.

What makes life hopeless?

You do.

Either you care enough about yourself to continue living or you don't. If you do, then live and enjoy the pleasures of life. Keep everything in balance and understand that it is not up to you to save the world, but it is indeed up to you to save yourself. If you can help others along the way, then do so if it pleases you, but don't drown yourself with negative vibes just because you can't.

And no, nobody is obligated to help anyone to begin with.

The choice is yours. ;)

[DoubleStar3]

A friend of mine who I was talking to about this earlier today said that it's great that I've made peace. This means that I'm ready for a new chapter in my life to begin and am ready to move on without any regrets of what the last chapter said. Nothing is ever truly an ending, but always a new beginning. I'm alright, always have been. I appreciate the advice. I asked what it meant because to me it was more perplexing then anything. I think my friend hit the nail on the head with this one though. And amazing within a few words said by all (here and on my other message board I go to) I think there's a little more room in my life for hope. Maybe I won't cling to it in this chapter as I did in the last. Thanks to all for the help and support.

[Lord Anubis]

Lets hope this is a glorious chapter!

[Owlie]

Peace won't happen.



Not in the society we live in, not with the way most of us live our lives.
Things will get better, things will feel perfect and wonderful and you will look forward to getting up in the morning, and greet the day with vigor and excitement. For a time.

Then one day you will wake up and in flash that will change.
Your girlfrend/boyfreind will cheat on you. Your mother/father will die. You will lose your job. You might even be involved in a car accident and lose all ability to move your legs.

Then things will be horrible, life will suck, you will look forward to your waking moments with loathing and fear, wishing never to wake up.

Then one day you will wake up, and in a flash everything will be better. This will go on for a time. Then things will get worse, then better. So on so forth for the rest of all of our lives.

Then you will die.

There is no peace, not for long anyways.
Same goes for turmoil. It won't last forever.

[Aruna]

Hope and Peace, they are two things it seems that so many fight for, live searching for, yet which so many seem never to reach.

I do not know if I have attained either, I neither know if I ever shall. All one can do is to live the best that they know how. Be the person you wish to be. I choose to be a good person, to try to behave and act right, to explore my world, etc.

I also try to live each day as if it were my last. I try hard to never say goodbye to anyone angry, or fall asleep mad. For I would feel terrible if they should die during the night, and I would not want them to hold the guilt and pain if it should be me who died during the night.

We might have past lives, we might have future ones yet to come, but all that is certain is this life right now. Don't try to live your life the way others tell you to, but to live your life your way.

Peace be with you, whatever peace may mean to you.