World Peace...

... it may be easier to achieve than you'd think.

As I was heading into work today, I was observing the life of my community unfolding around me. Two women were out for a jog, approaching the young paper boy who was passing through the yards on that street. At the intersection ahead, more people were bustling past the cars, which were coasting along on their journeys as their drivers headed to work, daycare to drop their kids off, the doctor's office, God only knows where. The sky was blue, the sun was shining, I could feel the breeze hitting my face as it blew in the open window. For this moment, I felt as if though all was right with the world. I had an epiphany of harmony, and of way of life. Everyone was going about their morning, presumably wrapped up in their own thoughts. Yet what if each person had only one moment a day like I had this morning; what if, for just a moment, each person's eyes were opened to those around them, to their surrounding environment, and they realized just how interconnected everyone and everything is. This would enable compassion, which is the only thing that has a chance of saving this world from spiraling downward. If we could open our hearts to the plight of others and sympathize, even empathize, then perhaps we would not be so quick to judge. Who knows. I implore each of you reading this, though, to open your hearts to compassion. It could change the world.