The Importance of Peace

Indeed it can.  Peace is what shall preserve you.  Happiness, while not overrated, is but a small piece of the puzzle.  Peace?  It is the puzzle. 

Without ado, further or otherwise, I present the final Pop Pop Rule:  Rule Number Thirteen. A rule so important for my granddaughter, Maggie, to learn and to retain, I saved it for last.

RULE NUMBER THIRTEEN

The most important thing you can attain is Peace…

There is nothing at all wrong with being happy.  Happiness however is not the “end all and be all”.  It is nothing more than a component part of a far bigger, more important thing, which is peace.  Understand that by peace I do not mean global harmony.  Rather, when I speak of peace I speak of it being inside of the four walls of your home and, even more critically, being inside the space between your two ears.

Peace is what energizes you.  It is what renews you.  It is what gives you what it is you need to get up every day and go out in the world to do what you need to do to fulfill yourself and to provide for yourself and your family.  Regardless of where you live, with whom you live, and what it is you to earn your living, your goal – your pursuit – should always be on attaining peace in your life. 

Once attained, you must do all that you need to do to cultivate it, to preserve it, and to ensure that it forever remains a part of your day-to-day.  As a very wise – albeit fictional – man named Coach Eric Taylor used to drill into his young football players, “Clear eyes. Full heart.  Can’t lose.” 

It is peace that permits you to have eyes that are clear and a heart that is full.  Go after it, get it, and then do all that you can to hold onto it.