Peace out now y'all...

Peace. It's a word in every teenager's vocabulary. Everyone knows the word. People even have a hand gesture for it now. It's like the key part of a picture. You could look in any given teenager's photos and you'll find at least one picture of them posing with peace. But it's become an overused word now. Do people ever really stop to think about what they're saying? Or do they just think it's cool? They probably think about hippie's and retro looks. In the time that peace first became popular, it was in statement about the war. Vietnam. They wanted peace. They wanted the war to end. But what do the teenagers now want? It seems they just want to be cool, to be anti-war. But they aren't that into it. They've used the word so much that the word has little meaning in popular context. Peace used to be a statement. A word that had meaning. Now it's just an overused word much the likes of "like", and "Oh My God." It's just a string of letters commonly used by people ages 10-20. What happened to the peace that meant something? The feeling of peace that overcomes someone? The peace that is talked about in religions? Those peaces still have meaning, still strong. I wish that was the peace that people still had today.

"Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away."