The Mystery of a Pen

Building peace means pursuing development. This means pursuing justice for all people and nations. It means recognizing a moral order that work in the human universe, and guiding our choices and the action accordingly. It means that citizens of the most affluent nation in the history of the world must use effectively their most important tool, which is their citizenship. We are to give good direction to our national policy on foreign aid, for overseas work, for world hunger, and management of loan for trade and terms of trade.

Development is not just a matter of economic and material goods. It involves the whole person; economics, culture, politics, religion – economic needs, cultural need, political needs, and religious needs. There are many things that we can do to promote peace and development. When financial and material resources are freed by a reduction of the military budget, as of perestroika, how will they be used? For the world development? For the world’s poor?

Resentment is an outgrowth of envy and anger. The person who feels cheated by life because he doesn’t have all the things he wants may suffer from resentment. Such a person feels angry about his misfortune and mixes it with self-pity. Resentment is a mixed emotion, composed of fear, envy and anger. Unless the individual makes an effort to free him self from it by reasonable self-criticism, he becomes the victim of and unhealthy emotion, centered in self-pity.

Resentment can offer no solution to a problem. It is a negative approach which defeats constructive activity. This power-full emotion can make the body sick as well as the mind, remember emotions can be hazardous. All of us go through emotional stress. Problems or events in our lives cause fear, anger, love, worry, or anxiety. At these times, our emotions control much of our behavior. Intelligence tends to take a back set results may be tragic.