With so much turmoil in the world my heart was in pain. I started to think about the word "peace" and what it meant. I tried so hard to do the things I loved but peace was nowhere to be found. My heart felt like it had been broken into pieces. I started to search for peace in many different places but found nothing. So I started to think back to what peace had meant to me.
Peace is a feeling we are born with. Being a mother I know that the most peaceful moment of my life was when I held my child for the first time. It was like everything around me stopped and my child and I were at absolute peace for those few moments. But then life begins and we as humans are engulfed in the rollercoaster, called life. We are up and down, sad and happy, miserable and excited sometimes all in the same day. For me personally speaking, I felt absolutely peaceful when I'm writing or when Im spending time with my kids. To me the word "peace" means me being in alignment with what I was put on this earth to do. I feel so peaceful at those moments, and feel absolutely out of place when I'm doing something that is against my core and inner values. So I went on a journey to ask eleven people (including myself) what they believed "peace "meant to them:
• Peace comes from having unity, kinship, and harmony with those around you -- Purvi Shahpatel
• Peace is when you love yourself enough to forgive others around you -- Debbie Jones
• My definition of peace: The first word that comes to my mind is "calm." It's that feeling to be able to breathe the air and tell myself, "I can do whatever I desire to do." To me, it's a value to express myself among others' opinions without any conflict. A result of an understanding by absorbing the differences in a healthy manner is what I call peace -- Kinjal Amin
• Peace will be when everything around us stops and we live in the moment -- Sara Scmit
• For me the most vital is one's inner peace. Where mind and body is relaxed and life is wonderful. -- Bushra Siddiqa
• Peace means positivity -- Amarah Gillani
• To be at peace means to accept everything around you, I am never at peace as there is so much around me that needs to be changed -- R.K
• Peace is when my heart is happy -- Mary Frasner
• Peace can only be found in the small corners of my own self, I can look around me and think someone else will give it to me but that's not how it works -- Jonathan Armando
• Love is peace -- Noor Khan