Where has peace gone in the world? Have people forgotten what it means to “come in peace”? I wake up in the morning, listening to the news, wondering why the world has become such a terrifying place. We all have different religions, whether it’s being a jew, muslim, catholic, buddhist, etc, but although they all believe in completely different things, shouldn’t we all at least want there to be peace on Earth?
My younger sister, who is currently 12 years old is worried about terrorism. She is scared to travel to other countries because of terror attacks, because of what she watches on the news. Her day-to-day conversation with her friends mostly includes national political talk about what would happen if the communist running for president were to win. She asked my dad the other night if we would move to another country. My question here is, why is a 12-year old worried about politics and terrorism? Shouldn’t she be playing games with her friends and focusing on her school work? It isn’t normal to be worried about dangerous situations at such a young age. But at the same time, in the world we live in, there seems to be a need to worry. 32 people were killed in the recent Brussels attack, along with more than 300 injured people; until now, more than 11 million people have been killed or forced to flee their homes in Syria, which leads them with hunger emergencies as the displaced find themselves without the means to feed themselves. As Peruvians, we feel safe, which is why it takes compassion to truly feel for these people. It’s so easy to watch these headlines on the news and turn the tv off, it’s harder though, to put yourself in their shoes and feel for them. We might feel useless but that does not give us the right to not feel sorry for them and imagine what these families are going through. This is why I question today’s society. I am not an expert on everything happening with ISIS or other terrorist groups, but I do know it bothers me that they struggle to have compassion for others and completely deny any peace between their own country. We are all here for such little time, why kill innocent people? I wonder because it is becoming harder and harder to explain such violence to the younger generation. All we can do is hope it ends soon so our world can be reminded again what it feels to live in peace between one another.
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Nicolas Correa
4/12/2016 06:34:51 am
War and peace has always been one of the worlds greatest problems. It has existed throughout all history and has even changed through time. It is still very shocking that a 12 year old must go through such times, I just try to imagine how much harder it must have been to live durring world war 2.
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Bon
4/17/2016 05:53:56 pm
We hear a lot about terrorist attacks, which are mainly hitting Muslim people. The Western countries have had to endure traumatizing events but the ones who are really affected are people in the Middle East:
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