Talking to a friend during class, I started speaking my mind and she overheard me. “What should I write about? OH! I know.. world peace!”
“Peace?”
“Yeah..”
“Honestly, that’s not really something I would write about.”
“Why not…?”
“Because how can you write 300 words on PEACE? What are you gonna say? ‘Peace is good…’” 
“Well, yeah…” 
“… well I’m not really that involved so it would be difficult to write 300 words on it alone, and do a good job.” 
I don’t know about some people, like this friend as an example, but I can write over 300 words about this. It’s something important to me. Not like my friends and family, a different kind of importance. Something I want to help achieve, like a goal. I strongly believe peace does not walk hand in hand with violence, but the exact opposite. I hear many people say that it does, that the only way to achieve peace is to create violence. I suppose they believe this because if a country gains so much power because of violence, then they can… overpower the rest of the world? This does not make sense. How is that possible!? Wouldn’t the other countries only want to overpower them? Wouldn’t they want to be greater? My answer is yes, they would. ‘Violence is not the solution.’ Therefore, peace and violence do not walk hand in hand. They are opposites and in this case, opposites do not attract. I believe one way to achieve peace is to put down our weapons, stop, and think. What is the point, why are we really doing this? But the world cannot do this, some of us at least. I think it’s the power, the power-hungry people who just need to be better than others. Maybe it’s not, at the same time. Maybe we’re just ignorant to peace, we don’t see the importance and the effect it has on us.
Peace One Day. I feel it is a very important day, a very powerful day. The 21st of September always has this impact on me. I have been told before, “Why would you care about peace? You’re Canadian, you’re… peaceful.” It still, no matter what, has this impact. It makes me feel proud, like if this pride, not of being Canadian though, can over-come me, then I can make a difference. I shouldn’t wait for the day it does, though, I should find the day. Peace One Day forces a reality-check on me, makes me realize that many people have it worse-off than I do. But that should never stop me from trying, that thought and realization should never put a barrier around me.
I watched the video on the website (link above), realizing what the man said was so true. That if there were to be a Valentine’s Day and Earth Day, there should be a day of peace. And now, there is.