Violence has manifested itself in various forms with different people around us and the disturbing thing is that it is on the increase and has no gender, race or age limitations. Rape, paedophilia, Child Abuse, physical assault, domestic violence are just few robes violence masquerades itself with.
Societal laws, religious doctrine, cultural values all forbids violence in any form yet we still find people indulged in it. The baffling part of the story is that whatever angle we may look at it, all violence originates from a scar or trauma to our ego. When we feel a need to claim our superiority, feel a need to defend our wounded pride, feel helpless about a situation, we let out lethal words or direct our physical strength against people, things whom may or may not have hurt us.
Violence is a wildfire that burns beyond the expectations of that whom ignited the fire. Once we reach that peak of emotional turmoil and cross the line of reasoning, we seek ways to express our frustrations, anger, this is when harsh words, physical assault may be an option to some. Some of us feel it is the only way out voice will be heard, our respect can be heard.
Using violence, oppressions, and verbal assault may seem like the best option and we never know how much damage we have caused until the consequences of our actions manifest upon the people affected by our words, acts and behavior.
When viewed from another context which is the law, sometimes violence have to be used in human interaction to ensure compliance to laws as written in our constitution. Death sentence, hard labor, chemical sterilization are violent but legal ways to bring order and balance to the society. When this happens we overlook it because we realise that it is a means of protecting humanity and ensuring peace.
We may sometimes wonder why violence has been on an alarming increase. The urge to make others feel pain, anguish and other emotions they might have made us feel is the Genesis of some assault. The desire to gain the respect, worship and dominance over other people when we feel insecure is another trigger. The desperation for success, wealth and fame may push us to the limit of using whatever means to achieve our goals, in some cases verbal threat, coercion may be used.
We momentarily or deliberately forget that our actions affect us and the people around us directly or inversely and has become our doom. When we hurt people with our words, behaviors, attitude and physical will, the trauma affect the individual or object we directed our frustrations to and everyone who have contact with that individual or object won't get maximum productivity or potential from them or it and this inversely affects the economic growth of our society. Blowing up oil pipes and reserves not only creates loss to the government, but we are the greatest losers because the oil spillage and fire from the act we orchestrated destroys our vegetation, kill our crops, starve our people, kill the source of livelihood we depend on, pollute our land and water and most painfully diminish our sense of security.
To gain control of this monstrous tendency that lives in all of us, we need to understand that most fights, wars and conflicts may be reversed if we had learnt to understand and have respect for people's culture, beliefs, values then humbly reached a compromise that will benefit both parties involved in the tug-of-war of ego and pride. Accepting our diversity without applications of stereotype is 100steps closer to achieving world peace. We should briefly ask ourselves "How would I feel when someone stereotypes me rather than listen to my views and see my full potential? "
Empathy, sincerity, patience, tolerance are key factors to unlocking the chambers of world peace. When we learn to treat each other regardless of color, tribe, beliefs and ideology the same way we would like to be treated, we are a million steps closer to achieving peace and saving humanity from torture created by itself. Learning to admit when we are wrong opening heart to understand people's values& beliefs about situations may go a long way in making others feel accepted, dignified and may even reduce their urge to want to enforce their decisions.
Whatever situation we may find ourselves in provocative or not, learning to take a minute to evaluate the potential consequences of our actions on us, the people around us and the future is all we need to curb the desire to enforce our will in violent ways violence is the fastest way to self-gratification but the fastest way to destroy what we love. Tolerance and patience is the slowest way to defend our wounded pride but the everlasting way to protect what we love and achieve stability.
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