Peace?

(Reflection on the Documentary Film)

            I have the power that I never dreamed of and I can do things I never thought I could. I can stand almost all adversities and overcome obstacles. These dimensions inflame my enthusiasm.  Please lend me your ears, hear my little voice and consider my claim.

            Upon seeing the documentary film, it made me to take a glimpse of my past and reflect of what I can possibly do for this peace. Non violence is at stake.

            From that time, I had already this disposition that the knowledge I acquired in schools provides means to learn how to live, to believe, to dream and to live peacefully. As years progress, I grow, become mature and it corresponds greater responsibility. In my journey as a person, I have so many realizations that sometimes linger me to fears and doubts. I am amenable that I will take the hard road, several leaps and bounds, stumble over to every stone, encounter storms, buffeted by the winds and falter in darkness. In the numerous facets and avenues of sex-laden media, struggle for the ancestral domain issue, environmental destruction, presence of large scale mining, development aggression, corruption, racial discrimination and even unstable peace and order are just some concerns that affect youth formation and I can painstakingly aware of it. Yes, this is the reality. Wake up my dear! Where are we now? Is this what we want to live today and to the day ahead? If then, how do we respond on this predicament?

            Thinking of my dreams, maybe your dreams as well, truly inspires me to be optimistic, to be at my best. I don’t want that this dream will just last as a dream. I will not let my world, my dream of peaceful sleep to be swallowed by these tremendous detractors. I will take these as challenges to conquer, as lessons to learn, downs that will teach me to get up and failures that will shape me to be strong and firm. This will guide me to my vision of building a culture of peace.

            In our context nowadays, I can say that the government in response to the call of transformation for harmony and peace takes several actions and best efforts in solving this quandary we are in. Other facet of peace initiative and formal peace talk made urgent. How does it work? Or the question is, does it work? My reader, sincerity is at stake in this sense and will lead this collaboration a success.

            In building this world we most aspire of is not just the task of somebody in authority. It is my task, your task, our task. It is my dream, your dream, our dream and we are responsible to work for it, pursue it, live it, do it. As a simple student, I try to involve myself in my own little ways. Being faithful to my studies, giving respect to my classmates and being responsible to my duties are my positive response in shaping my vision and living my dream reaching towards the culture of peace I aspire of.

            Consequently, it is a challenge to you, to all of us. Peace is possible. We must pursue non violence. We need long term peace. Never give up as long as we know we are right. Be courageous and optimistic in the faces of the odds. Never surrender to discouragement. Go! We are born to win. Go! Be a doer. Go! Affirm to the truth. Get up and empower ourselves in shaping the vision, living the dream towards building the culture of peace.