The Non-Violence Force
A mechanism of dealing with relationships
We have to learn to walk away from violence. We have to resist fighting one another. Aggression is only oppression. Passiveness can cause agitation. There are many people that we meet in our walk of life that challenge us. They challenge our character demanding us to act in ways that are not right. They challenge our thoughts to think of things of hurt for our neighbor. They challenge our interpretation of who we are and where we come from. Nobody is immune to the challenges in our lives. We must find the courage to choose non-violence.
You can walk away from intense situations. There is always a peaceful way to resolve differences. We do not have to choose weapons, our talk is the weapon. The way we talk to one another. We must use respect and dignity. We must be understanding. We cannot show ignorance. When you lack the knowledge, we must humble ourselves and learn. We must learn about our friends. We must learn about our family. We must learn about our enemies. Though this is not easy, we must see through their eyes, their hurt, and their pain then we can set them free and ourselves free with words and thoughts.
You can turn away from anger. Even if it was built up from trauma of your past. Anger comes from a lack of knowledge. Most provoked anger always comes from ignorance and rejecting the truth. When we are angry, we must learn to control it. This is important to poise and respect. A non-violent person does not get angry easily and is not persuaded by offenses but has great patience. It is a common emotion when understanding is lacking. We have to set back the urge to retaliate. Concentrate on the healing of ourselves and the healing of others. We have to gradually protect our faith and provide hope. Violence is not the way. Violence means the end of life and its effects lead to life-loss.
You can meditate on the good in life. We have to acknowledge the good things. We must fight inside ourselves and believe that the situation we are in has a higher purpose. We have to lift ourselves and our neighbor out of the darkness of hate. There is a light in every beacon within us shining. And we must draw in on that light, the light is truth and peace. This is love being content with who we are and where we come from. Wanting too much leads to dissatisfaction, we must have satisfaction in helping. Sometimes we have to build a bridge between differences. Differences can run from race, sex, creed, sexuality, gender, etc. Love will show the way and must abide in the heart of a non-violent person. Love is the lens that sees the good in life.
We all have choices and non-violent leads to long life. We must let those who we argue with understand our side of the story concerning their feelings and emotions. We must not let emotion overtake us. We cannot let feelings overcome us, We have to plan what we say. Your words carry weight, do not take language lightly. The way you present yourself is an expression of who you are. We have to talk it out. Not by yelling and belittling one another, but clearly and letting one another know the problem and resolve it without force. We must balance our view of justice with our neighbor's view of justice. We must trade places and understand the needs over wants. It is the need that we meet which will fulfill one another. We have to prepare ourselves for confrontation with neutral people to break our silence.
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Matthew Primous
I am a Black Scholar, International Scholar, & Google Scholar, & 3-Time Eber & Wein Best Poet., Nominee for Poet of the Year, 2020 Black Author Matters Winner, 2 time Akademia Excellence Essayists,& 2022 Honorary Muckrack Journalist.
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Why We Must Care
It may be your family, your mother, your father, your friend, your brother, or your sister. Anyone can be affected by poverty and poverty has no respect for anyone. We can all be victims of its grip. Economies can be built up and they can fall. Poverty knows no boundary and poverty has no race, no color, no creed, and no sex. No one is immune to poverty, it can take anyone by storm and devour their livelihood. Poverty is a victimize and strike the very young of our world and people. Every day young children are born into poverty and even when they are educated they are still victims of its grip on their life. Young children die daily due to a lack of food, clothing, medicine, housing, and shelter. Every day children waste away and parents have to see their children starving and dying in front of them. And some children lose their parents and caretakers becoming orphans at a young age. Where is the compassion for humanity? Where is the love for life and respect for life? We all must take responsibility for not caring enough to give and share our wealth, what we take for granted. Many may be asked why should they care because we benefited from cheap labor and we benefited from cheap wages and our livelihood may have to answer to the crimes of poverty that built our economy. It will behoove us to care and amend what we have done and the lack of care we have shown. We can change the world with one act of kindness. We can shed light on the darkness of poverty. Its culture must be brought to justice. And we cannot lose this fight for the children's lives are at stake and the future of the world depends on them. We must band together and reach for those whose lives are burden with impossibilities. What kind of legacy is passing down to your children? If you want them to care about the world then you must show them how to care. You must take the time to pass down charity. Who knows if that child you save may become a doctor who eradicates cancer? Who knows if that child you save becomes an educator and lift a generation out of poverty? We must understand that this battle is real and happening every day. We cannot become complacent with our care and neglect the need of the impoverished. Every day is a day of change, change those impoverished lives by helping them out of poverty that has been generational and lifting. Who knows if we have much so we can build up others? Who knows if we might have so we can change the world? The legacy of the world is at stake, those who are in need happens to be in dire situations. Even babies are dying because their mothers lacked the necessary nutrition. If we don't take up this fight then we will regret it. Isolating ourselves from the problem only makes the problem worse and it refuses to disappear. Do riches matter when most of the world is poor? Do riches matter when poverty could come at any time? A man is measure by his greatness and not by what he owns. A woman is seen by her charity and not by what she possesses. We can no longer hide the light of doing good. It is time to reach further and dig deeper. You can change eternity for those impoverished, do so today.
By Matthew Primous4 years ago in Humans
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