World Peace? We're lost?

"World Peace" a phrase so closed to us and yet so far away from reality. Perhaps, the reason why it is so far away is because we don't understand the root cause of it. There is one occassion, I was told the root caused of it and everything seems making lots of sense. What do u think is the root caused of War?

In the world of capitalism that come along with industrialization, the concept of earning, profit, income all in focus. There follow materialism, we tend to sacrifices a lot of things that are important to us (Sometimes, we have forgotten it is important to us) in order to achieve the income, earning, or profit in orde to exchange for the material or things that we chasing after (better car, better house, better shirts, better looks ...etc). Sometimes, it just make us feel so lost and wonder...

There is a story that are really sad and fully depicted the materialistic world. One 12-year-old child from China, he killed his parents for merely $10k chinese yuan. When he asked why he did that, the answer is scary but real, he said he wanted to buy a new cell phone.

There is another story, in a seminar, when the audience were asked, "When there is a very delicious food given to you, what is your first intention?" A 30-year-old audience answer without much thought, "Of course take a bite and taste the foold." Then, another women said, "I'll bring share the food with my children." Later, a teenager answer, "I'll bring the food to my parents." These answer must be interesting when compared.

Without much doubt, most of us will think that our world is getting more and more advance with lots of inventions like computer, ipod, electornics etc. And I'm really enlightened when i was asked one question, "What's the most important things or material to us all?" The answer is, "Fresh air, water, sun shine." But are there getting any better?

Perhaps we are in the century of seriously self-centered (selfish) world, where most of us care about ourselves more than anything or anyone else. In a selfish community, everyone started to compete with each other, and fights will follow with "selfish politics", then War !!! End of day arrived for lots people that we read in newspaper that kill themselves or got killed day by day. Everyday, newspaper is showing news on fights, robbery, kills, wars...etc

To have World Peace and change everything for good, we will have to start from education. Start from learning to "give" instead of "get", to "contribute" instead of "what's in it for me?", and cultivate universal love as taught in some religion teaching as we keep helping each other to make a difference and create a better world for children and further generation. All these good acts will be in sync and resonance with our heart and create happiness and joy. Finally a world that is full of love will never be in War.

Therefore, start filling love to the world start from ourselves. Start caring and loving everybody around you. May world peace one day a reality and not just a slogan.