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Lately, I’ve been thinking about peace.
I guess we all have.
Things are getting really heavy and dark, and we’re all hoping it’s for the best.
I’ve been thinking about world peace, but also about the peace we feel inside and how we reflect that at home through our conversations and behaviours, such as how we choose to react when we get triggered.
I followed the 108-day journey of the monks walking for peace in the USA, and I’ve felt so much tenderness. It felt good to watch reels of them in a moment when all we were seeing was, and is, chaos.
It is like breathing fresh air.
I could feel their energy through the phone, and it made me think about my own emotions at home. About how much I’ve been arguing this past year, and how, somehow, rooting for peace in the world made me realize that peace at home was needed first.
I had a realization that what happens in the world has a lot to do with what happens in our own lives. That the world is an accumulation of each of us—our unresolved emotions, moments of anger, judgements, attacks, and dehumanisation. And that it all adds up.
Once, I saw an illustration of a hand inside the Earth. The fingers were coming out of the ground, and each finger was a person. The hand was the universe.
It was a simple reminder:
we are not separate.
So when chaos happens in the world, I believe that, somehow, we have all contributed to it at home, in our own lives. That each of us has added a bit of our energy into the world.
I’ve been seeing so much hate in the past few years. So much division. So much outrage.
And it feels only natural that dark truths have come to the surface and chaos has spread. These horrifying things coming out lately are merely reflections of humanity’s shadows. The dark side.
I feel like many of us had a face-to-face with our shadows in 2025. Things we didn’t want to see, and patterns we couldn’t ignore anymore, came to the surface. And I believe 2026 is the reflection of that on a collective level. The shadows of the world are coming up so we can choose which path to follow.
We have two options: awareness or unconsciousness.
Awareness is choosing light in small moments. It’s taking responsibility for how we speak, how we listen, and where we place our attention. Unconsciousness is continuing on autopilot so that we don’t have to face our shadows.
Most of us are outraged by what’s happening in the world right now, and that outrage is pushing us toward awareness and toward choosing better. I believe things will change for the better, because it’s the only way forward now.
It’s like when we finally decide to look at our own shadows. At first, it feels overwhelming, like we’ll never get out of that place. We can’t even look at what’s there. And then, slowly, we become brave enough to accept it. And once we accept it, we can choose how to move forward.
That’s where we are now. This is the beginning of a new era if we move with awareness.
There are people risking their lives for peace. And while many of us can’t do that, there is something we can do. We can bring peace at home and within ourselves. We can choose how we argue, how we treat strangers, what we normalize, and what we forgive.
We can choose to be better.
We can choose to light the candle of peace. And if each of us lights a candle, there will be enough light to illuminate the world, and peace will spread.
Because we are all connected.
We are the fingers of the same hand.
And what we heal in ourselves, we heal in the world.
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