One of the things that I am grateful for is the fact that we don't have a war being fought outside our front door. No gunshots...no missiles overhead...no sirens...no ambulances...no war...here.
However war is being fought in other parts of the world and I've been thinking about it and I've concluded that:
- Humanity is patient enough to have no war.
- Humans are not patient enough to have no war.
Humanity, however, is made up of humans...therefore we have war. We as humans could decide to have no war. All of us could agree to have no war. But then one of us would get greedy for something...perhaps just a little thing. And the greed would become stronger...whether for democracy in some distant place...or for a military contract...or for a religious principle...and then there would be a war.
Seems silly doesn't it? In the long term we would be better off spending our resources for love, for joy, for happiness, for health. But instead during and between wars we spend a lot of resource preparing to or actually hurting fellow human beings. What a waste. And yet so essential. War.
-Jim Coffee-
