Values Series 2: Peace
Welcome to this 4-part (minimum) series where I delve into the definitions and practical applications of my values list! My four top values in no particular order are: justice, peace, empathy, and people. How did I come to those four words in particular? I worked with my own coach! How do I feel about those words? Complicated as all hell! One thing I've learned is that words don't actually have the meaning assigned by the dictionary - they have the weight of all of our lived experiences behind them. You probably won't define these words as values the same way I will, and that's fine! More than that, that's wonderful! We might share words, but not definitions, or have the exact same values but call them wildly different things. Isn't the human experience beautifully varied? Now for the second value of our list: peace. I define peace on a global and personal scale as: the spirit of nonviolence and avoidance of harm towards others and the self. Peace was a hard...