War, Not Love

As I was randomly browsing through Etsy today, I came across a political piece of jewelry. As many of you know by now, I love jewelry that sends a message. I found one particular necklace with a Jimi Hendrix quote on it. The quote:

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix

For some reason this quote made me think about how we have all become so accustomed to war. When we read the news headlines there are almost always articles about war, but I don't remember the last article I read about love or a loving act. War is normalized. War is expected. War is accepted.

Children aren't born into the world knowing about war. We teach them war. I tried to think back to my childhood and recall when I first learned about the concept of war. I first learned about war when I was around eight years old. We were learning about the U.S. Civil War. Naturally, we learned about slavery at the same time. It was at that time that I noticed differences in skin color.I remember feeling shocked and wondering how one group of people could effectively enslave another group.

There is a sense of innocence lost when we teach children about the ills of war. Perhaps it's how we teach war. Instead of teaching war as a patriotic privilege, maybe we should teach it as a an unfortunate series of events that occurred in the history of humanity. It could be taught as something that shamefully occurred. It could be taught as it really is - that there are are truly no winners in war. There are only losers because everyone experiences a tremendous loss.

We can glorify love.

All that glitters just might be gold.

Love, Peace & Hair Grease,
Miss Priss aka Kari
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