Ending a Cycle

This is gonna sound silly, but i was reading a comic, X-men to be exact and it set me thinking...
Somehow comics these days set me thinking a lot.
The art work aside, what is the message behind the comics?
For the X-men, well, its to stop discrimination and hate.....

As i was reading through it, it dawned on me, that for peace to come about, for acceptance to come about, blood has to be first spilled....
Jesus, the Matyred Saints, Ghandi, Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther King, etc.....
For something closer to home? The racial riots many years ago, Bandah Aceh's independence?

Like i ask, does blood first have to be spilled, so that peace can come about? no matter how temporary?

What if, all the world is looking for, all the world is waiting for is for the cycle to end?
For peace to come without weapons and arms, more importantly, without Bloodshed.....

Peace upheld by force of arms never lasts.... but peace being kept willingly by both parties? that lasts a long long time....

What is it that keeps us fighting? Can our human nature be truly so warlike? Must the Strongest always be on top? Survival of the fittest? Nature's instinct?

Yet, so many people have come before us and shown us how working together makes us so much stronger. Why is it that, we can't all work together?
What is truly blocking this peace process? The process of coming together and working things out. Not with violence, but by compromise?

Violence only begets Violence, Anger only begets more Anger. Hate, only more Hate.......

Can we as people tear ourselves from this cycle? Can we as a nation break this cycle and show the world an example of peace? Of truly harmonious living?
Can we as individuals, put aside our prejudices and judgements and see each other truly as another individual? Another person, Human Beings? Who bleeds red just like everyone else?
Made out of flesh and bone?

I ask you honestly, what has hate and prejudice ever done for anyone?
Nothing for me... Yet Love has brought me so much more.....

This is a call for peace!
This is a call for Friendship!
This is a call To LOVE!

Amazing how comics can bring about such thoughts eh?
pick one up, read it, superman, batman, JLA, X-men, what ever....
the message is the same, the call is the same....
Stop the hating and start the loving.....