Since 1981, the United Nations has celebrated an annual day of peace meant to call people in all nations to a day of ceasefire and peaceful relations with their enemies. “This year,” the official site reports, “UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will ring the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters in New York in the company of the UN Messengers of Peace. He has called for a 24-hour cessation of hostilities on 21 September, and for a minute of silence to be observed
around the world at noon local time.”
Believe what you will about the UN, about the prospect of world peace through positive feelings alone or about broadly-themed days like this. Whatever you believe, I’d encourage you to take the day as an opportunity to forgive people who have hurt you. Take the day as an opportunity to bring a small bit of peace to the corner of the world you live in.
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