Peace
- Mette Maja Mouritsen
- May 21
- 2 min read

We each live in our own world, while at the same time believing we live in the same one.
Therefore, disagreements, conflicts, and in extreme cases, wars arise from time to time.
We can be so convinced that others know and understand our world that we are surprised, disappointed, and perhaps feel let down when we discover that they do not know and do not understand our world.
We relate to each other from our own world, even though we think we live in the same one.
Even the person we may feel closest to lives in their own world.
It's easy to understand when it comes to our nightly dreams. We can go to bed and sleep together, and yet we can't know what the other person is dreaming.
The same thing is happening today. We simply believe that because we communicate with each other and in different ways, we understand and know each other's worlds.
We may know a little about them, but down to the core, where it really matters, where misunderstandings and conflicts arise, we are strangers.
It is understandable that life in a human body involves conflicts and feelings of loneliness from time to time.
At its core, our world consists of the sensory impressions, thoughts, beliefs, and images that each of us creates. We experience everything through our unique sensory apparatus.
Imagine seeing the world through your neighbor's eyes and mindset.
As we think, we do, we create our own imagination, which could be called a dream.
We dream up our own and each other's world based on the many sensory impressions we receive.
No matter how hard we try, we only see our own world.
Our common world is built on a dream and on faith.
If we want peace in the world, we must find a common dream to believe in.
In my world, LOVE is the greatest common denominator from which a dream of peace can be created.
I know that we also don't have a common understanding of the concept of love.
Deep down, we all know the feeling.
If nothing else, we know its contradictions and can withdraw from them.
If we cannot withdraw into the outside, we can withdraw into ourselves.
There is love there, even though we may have forgotten it, and the path there may initially feel foreign and unknown.
From that place within us, it is easier to accept that we experience life differently and live in our own worlds, no matter how much we may long to be one.
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