THE WAR WITHIN US.

               Today we are all agitating about the indiscriminate killings, bombings, social conflicts and all the occurrences that pose a threat to our existence and peace. Mass media, social media and the society is abuzz with news, discussions and thoughts about the insurgencies happening close or far away from us while some of us keep mute about the issue. What is the Genesis of these wars? Who is to blame? How can we help those caught up in it?
                While some of us believe peace is disrupted when people are engaged in physical assault and oppression. Some of us believe war erupt when our freedom is taken from us and our lives becomes pawn in the hands of those who threaten our social equilibrium and peace.
                   The rest of us believe war is beyond the explosions, insults, assaults, kidnappings, pilage, killings and media misrepresentation we witness. We believe that war starts when our heart is in discord with the standard that our society has set.
                    The confusing truth is that every war, conflict and social unrest experienced have an origin traced to our minds and selves. Our ideas, culture, values, beliefs are prerequisites that defines our personality and attitude towards things. The ability to channel emotions properly eludes some of us. Channelling our emotions, thoughts and words in a socially acceptable manner is another challenge .
                   Sometimes the problem is not just limited to us. We find ourselves in an environment whose values, culture & practices contradicts ours and clash of thoughts & principles are inevitable. We struggle with people who see us as villains, delinquents, violent and misguided because of our diverse beliefs.
                  Other times, the problem lies in the society. The society is engrossed in stereotyping and people start to forget that humans are unique beings and will manifest  unique qualities. We expect everyone to see things in the same way we do, to share our views without disagreements. All these are indestructible fuel for conflicts.
             

GIVE ME MORE.

Give me more.
The society demands your contribution to its development.
Our craving for wealth, success and fame increases with each bite of success.

Give me more.
We demand better choices, opportunities from our loved ones and the world.
We seek peace, tranquility, economic and social independence for ourselves.
 
Give me more.
We strive for a disease-free life, good water and food supply.
We strive to alleviate the sufferings of refugees and less privileged.
We seek justice for the oppressed.

Give me more.
We desire unconditional love, attention and doting from our loved ones and people around us.
We seek social acceptance from people.
We seek to break away from stereotypes we are labelled with.

Give me more.
We compete for better living standards for people.
We battle with our emotional conflicts to attain happiness and balance.
With desperation we seek to live long in luxury.

Give me more.
The crowd push is to our limits with their applause.
The world demands our innovations and disregard our common ideas.
The world awaits our unique, life changing ideas and actions.

Give me more.
Our sense of accomplishment becomes insatiable with every win.
We seek perfection in all we do.
We seek to have everyone at our call and service.

Give me more.
We demand a Messiah to save us from penury, conflicts and challenges.
We seek recognition for our plights, and seek attention for unnoticed regions for their development.

Give me more.
We expect unquestioned trust, understanding and tolerance from from everyone who meets us.
We want to be the one controlling how events unfolds in our lives and around us.
We desire unrivaled acceptance of all our thoughts and acts.

With each passing day we demand for more.

DO YOU NEED HELP?

                  A lot of controversies surround seeking aid from people around us, ranging from people being too dependent ,impolite and arrogant to admit that they require people's intervention. How often do you seek people's intervention? Does seeking help make us seem weak and incompetent? Does seeking help limit our potentials on problem solving and critical thinking? Seeking help may seem like a way to learn from others and to others it may seem like showing the world our weaknesses.
                Seeking help has become people's undoing and nemesis because they seek aid at the wrong time from the wrong people and too frequently. Rather than thinking, reflecting and strategising ways to solve a problem, some would rather give in to challenges and seek people's intervention to help them face their challenges. When a challenge comes up, they neither explore their potentials and apply critical thinking to analyse the situation nor strategize plan that will tackle the problem and prevent future occurrences.
              Seeking help has built some of us, made us more productive and improved our skills. When faced with a challenge, it may destabilize our emotional balance, disrupt the sequence of achievement we have set as goals and we will need to evaluate our actions which leads us to learn from mistakes we made. Challenges make us realise the need to modify & change our plans and this helps to build our resilience, helps us explore our potentials, skills through critical thinking. Our emotional intelligence is boosted as we gain knowledge, ideas and reviews from other people which helps us understand and tolerate people more. It helps us gain diverse views that will provide solutions to our problems. It makes us try out new, modified methods of guidance to what we want to achieve.