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When you feel, so powerless.

Pick one. Two kids walking on the road. One hits the other for no apparent reason. They are beginning to start fighting. You are watching all of this. The other kid asks you what he should do now. What do you do? Tell him to forgive him and just move past this small incident. Or, ask him to hit the first kid back, till both of them keep hitting each other, until the time they grow up and still keep fighting, when finally one of them kills the other one’s kids. Hard pick. Peace. One word we take for granted. One word we make fun of. We have ridiculed and abused. One word we least understand the importance of. One word we’ve hardly ever done anything to achieve it. One word we will never deserve. And why, is because we never strived hard enough to get it. We abused it for our own personal gains. Proof? Divisive politics. The biggest example of this close home is that of the India-Pakistan partition, 1947. The aftermath of that led to a string of unreasonably irrational behavior fr