Random thoughts on peace in Mindanao
My realm is my homeland. My world is my home. The centre of my universe is where my shadow is. To see, to aspire, and to dream is a part of my sky. It is beyond what I can see. It’s beyond what I can do. And I go beyond what I dream. For my sky is distinct in majesty. But is peace distinct? Or is it elusive as it always is in my homeland? Can I always go beyond what I vision about peace? Can I stretch my world and my universe? Can I hold peace once? Or twice? Or thrice? Then, can I have the freedom to spread the colourful wings of peace and shower it into my restless realm longing for justice and tranquility for decades and centuries now? Oh yes… colourful wings? What makes it colourful? Is it yellow, blue, red? Is it because of pink, white, and green? Or is it because it is rainbow-coloured peace? Does it have colour anyway? Or colours of peace go beyond what we literally know, see, and feel? Will it heal the wounds of misconception and differences? Will it give light on the dimming relationship? Will it open the mind of people haunted by the bloody and anxious past? Or will it show the way to the long journey of untangling complexities and predicament?
Hang in there. Peace comes when least expected. A year before we achieved peace in South Africa a group of leading academics came together and wrote a book about the possibility of peace in South Africa. The book called the Mythmakers concluded that we will not have any democracy or peace in South Africa in the foreseeable future. A year later we started talking and five years later had our first democratic elections. Hang in there. Hope never dies.
angryafrican
August 16, 2008 at 1:36 am
Peace will come as soon as the MILF members who did the atrocities in Lanao del Norte and North Cotabato face justice. I believe that it is only when these wrongs are addressed, that the process of peace building can continue…
Until then, the people must defend themselves because who knows what these terrorists would do to innocent civilians.
Engr. Dr.
August 25, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Eternal peace and satisfaction are, I believe, the most sacred quests of human beings. Many schools of thoughts prevailing in the world speak of how valuable it is to have peace within, and ‘prescribe’ to us the ways to attain harmony within ourselves.
Nice blog.
AamirRaz
October 9, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Check my latest poll;
http://environmentdebate.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/virtual-government-going-web-20/
matt
October 21, 2008 at 2:29 pm