Reflections on Peace, Philosophy, and Life
Why understanding feeling, changes how we look for peace.
Almost everyone I know would say they want to be content. Not ecstatic, not permanently happy, not successful in some grand sense — just content. At ease. Comfortable in their own skin. And yet, for something so widely desired, contentment seems strangely elusive.
We tend to treat contentment as something to be reached: after this problem is solved, after this stage of life, after this achievement, after the right circumstances line up. But what if that very approach is what keeps it out of reach?
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Crime and Poverty: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Crime and poverty are often discussed as if they were separate problems, requiring separate solutions. They are not. They are two sides of the same coin. And yet, again and again, societies attempt to eliminate crime while leaving poverty intact. This is not just ineffective — it is irrational.
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Before I started my psychology degree, I worked for six months as a porter at the Maudsley Hospital in London.
Part of the job was accompanying patients to and from ECT. Electroconvulsive therapy. A machine, a treatment, a protocol. Very efficient. Very clinical.
What I remember most clearly is what happened after.
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Forgiveness is a word we use easily, yet it points to something profoundly difficult. People often say, “You must forgive,” as though forgiveness were a simple decision, something one can just do and then get on with life. But real forgiveness is nothing like that. It is not quick. It is not tidy. And it certainly cannot be forced.
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Who am I?
I’m a man.
I’m a boy.
I’m a child.
I’m a son, a father, a brother, a cousin, a grandfather, a grandson.
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