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Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. Growing up, one thing I learned from my parents is that for peace to reign or for two or more people to coexist peacefully, somebody or all parties involved are making sacrifices. Peace only comes into existence when we decide to make sacrifices. We are all humans, and we are flawed in one way or another, so the best way to coexist is when we decide to look beyond the other person's flaws and try not to react to or judge them by these flaws. Looking beyond a person's flaws is one of the hardest things to do, but for peaceful coexistence, it is the best choice and option.
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Indeed, growth changes a lot about a person. As a kid growing up, I found it very difficult to overlook things. I like to react and talk, but that took my peace of mind away and always stopped the reign of peace, as some people will not want to take correction and instead will react wrongly when you try to point out something to them. But overtime, I learned the importance of peace and how overlooking things and not reacting all the time can actually bring about the existence of peace and living together in harmony. The importance of peace cannot be overemphasized, whether at home, school, or at workplace. Peace is a vital tool for progress. When there is peace, we all work together as a team, but when there is no peace and we bear grudges against each other, it becomes very difficult to experience teamwork.
As we journey through life, we get to meet different people with different behaviors and ways of life. If we fail to adopt the habit of making sacrifices just to see to it that peace reigns, then we will keep encountering problems and losing friends and friendships we were supposed to keep. The reign of peace promotes and allows coexistence; without peace, we won't be able to coexist with each other. For peace to reign, we must learn tolerance, which is another way of making sacrifices.
I gained admission to the university a few years ago, and the university rule is that every student must live in the school hostel as a fresher before they are allowed to live off campus. This was a very bad idea for me because I have heard a lot of stories about school hostels and how bad and dirty the environment can be, but since it was mandatory, there was no way I could avoid it. I finally moved into the school hostel, and I met my roommates. The school authority allocates a room to four people. At first, everything was going well until we all started observing one of our roommates who was playing the smart guy.
We all must have experienced all these people who feel they are wiser than every other person. We all agreed to be cooking together, but whenever we want to cook, he leaves the room in order not to contribute anything and comes back at a time when the food is ready to be eaten. He doesn't even help with the chores around the room, as he claims he is the last born in their house and was not allowed to carry out any chores, so he does not know how to do any. We kept talking to him, but whenever you did, he'd react wrongly and try to make mountains out of mere hills.
For the sake of peace, we actually stopped cooking together. Also, for peace, the rest of us kept sweeping and carrying out chores like sweeping and keeping the room clean without asking him to do anything or looking up to him to do anything. Imagine living four in a room, but only three people get the chores around the room done just so peace will reign and you will not go having issues with a roommate. It was annoying and painful, but just for peace, we had to keep taking it until our time in the hostel was up.
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