The recent Peace Day and week of celebrations have just ended in the schools, but we continue to encourage our children to speak and practise peace always - for the months and years to come.

I watched the students recite their pieces, perform their dub poems and dramatise scenario after scenario about how we can live in peace and harmony with each other.

I wondered though, when did we reach this place in our lives when our curriculum is required to mend behavioural problems that should have been taken care of by our families? I sense that many of our children are hungry for that experience. There is too much antagonism, hatred and strife in the family setting that has spilled over into our society and is causing this great depression we are now in.

I envision this world of peace as a great big amusement park where everyone will have enough and enjoy each others company. A place where our immediate family settings will cross and mingle with the extended one. A place where our hearts and sorrows will be mended just by the atmosphere created. A place where there is no need for ammunition, because we need protection from nothing and no one. Is it possible to have such a place?

I am, etc.,

Everton Tyndale

evat_78@hotmail.com

Mandeville, Manchester