Love Peace, And Peace Will Love you

20 years ago today, i got talking to my then wife, about all the imbalance in the world, and that sooner or later, the have nots, will respond, and react, to those that have, the basics of drinking water, food, and a roof over their head, and medicines. and that some of these will lash out be it religious, political, or racial differences, or all three, and that i had a really horrible feeling something was going to happen very soon. i'd never had such an extreme 'instinct' like this before, but had no idea how it would be acted out. this ramble/rant lasted for an hour, but i felt i had to tell her, but was hoping it was just a severe moment of angst. the next morning, i got a phone call from my wife, she said "turn the telly on!" a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre, and like everyone else was thinking how terrible, how could such an accident happen? then everyones nightmarish worst possible thoughts were confirmed when the second plane crashed, and the real horror that this was a deliberate act hit home. yet it was like watching a dystopean Hollywood disaster movie. and it scared me further, as i had kind of sensed it the night before, it for me was almost like a predictive text. ive witnessed the best of human behaviour, but ive also been on the receiving end of the worst, so i live life with eyes wide open. receiving the good people with open arms, whilst trying to understand the bad, and what made them that way, and would echo the words of John Lennon "give peace a chance" i know this is just a hope, and that Utopia for some, is another persons nightmare ie one persons meat, is another persons poison. variety is the spice of life, i just wish we could all accept our differences, i live with a small dollop of hope, but realise that my ambitious words written when i was 16 "love peace, and peace will love you" were naive, but hopefully one day 💕🦋💕