Bulding Peace

The video has made me reflect that we take things for granted, we are not thankful for all the things that we have while there are people around the world that will die for an education. I had the mentality that there was no more peace or good people in the world, but  when I saw this video I saw hope because now I know that there are still people out there with a heart that care and help others with nothing in return. Greg Montenson was motivated by seeing all the poverty in the world and saw how their culture was in need of education and he had the initiative to start building the school for women in Afghanistan. He thought that if they educate a girl at least to the fifth grade level it could help by reducing infant mortality, reducing population explosion, and improving basic quality of health. With this simple act of kindness he proved he was able to enter a foreign culture, respect local customs, and build relationships with religious and community leaders. He mentioned something that is very true, we can afford to give out condoms and do other things but yet we cannot afford free education to those who are in need? He reminded us that we should spend all of our money in things that are really needed, not just for guns and war. There should be less ignorance in the world to make it a better place for all of us. Why does it always have to be blood shedding battles? We should all find peace in another way other than fighting. This video gave us all hope and it tells us that with just an act of kindness everything can turn into a better place.

Does peace really exist?

The first thing that comes into my head when I hear the word peace is that we truly need it in our world. It is extremely heartbreaking to see that the city that most needs it, is right across our border. People have already lost the sympathy of killing human beings. We see in the news that in Mexico women and children are being raped, tortured, hanged, or decapitated. It is devastating to know that kids are carrying and using weapons to kill people each day as a job to get paid. Females were used to be known as something warm and caring, now they are the ones in charge of major drug cartels in Mexico.  People that live in Mexico and do not have papers to come to the United States are frustrated because their families are in danger and they can not find peace in themselves. They do not have normal lives like we do, they are scared to go to places and they are home by a certain time to be safe; they are screaming for help but yet no one can hear them. My family and I used to go to Juarez often to visit our family but now we think twice about going, and when we do we lock the doors and pray that nothing will happen to us. It is sick to know what our world has turned into. That is just one of the preposterous things that are happening in the world. How ironic that for most of us, the five letter word “peace” is just an imaginary perfect world that doesn’t exist.