Did you know that the world has only been at peace 8% of the last 3,500 years? Pretty sad in my opinion. 8% of 3,500 is 280 years, that's less than 3 long lifetimes over 3,500 years!
I came across this statistic online while researching for my midterm in Statistics class. Honestly, I can't help by feel very saddened by this fact. Why can't we get along? It must be human nature to fight and bicker all the time. Someone always wants to be better than the other person. In this case, we are talking countries and territories but this holds true on even smaller scales...even children fight all the time. We have to constantly reteach their human nature of violence and show them that being jealous of one others toys or whatever they are fighting over that second is wrong. We have to constantly show them that being peaceful and talking about our feelings is the better way to handle disputes. We teach our children not to fight or hit...but why can't we as adults practice the same lessons?
For the sake of our children and their children, and their grand babies and their grand babies children..I hope and pray that the next 3,500 years are much more peaceful...otherwise..we might just end human civilization on Planet Earth ourselves.
Heading to bed feeling very blessed for my children, and hoping I can raise them to love one another and help them make their footprint on this planet a peaceful one. I want to teach them right from wrong and have them pass on those lessons to their children.
Question for you....How does this statistic make you feel?
Until Next Time ...
Lady Bea
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