How important is peace to you? Do you want peace or you don't care about it? Have you ever contributed to making a place peaceful before, if yes, how did you feel? When growing up, did you find yourself always trying to make peace or where you that child that people tagged as war lord, if yes, why was it so? Is it that your parents or guardians encouraged you to do so or was it just who you thought you were? These are questions out of so many that we all need to give sincere answers to if we want to have true peace.
I was trying to think about what would be best to write about when I have a theme like peace and also coupled with the fact that I will be writing it with a partner and I discovered that there are so many things and ways to write about peace, you just have to start writing, hehehe. So I decided to start with those questions you already read above and then ideas started flowing to me. Although my partner had suggested I made it a fiction story but I don't really have idea of how the story should go so I decided to use real life situations.
As regards the last question I asked, "When growing up, did you find yourself always trying to make peace or where you that child that people tagged as war lord, if yes, why was it so?" yes this question, it looks somehow but I will help you see reasons why you should give an answer to it. While growing up as a little girl staying with her siblings and father, I was a warrior, you know why? I hated the fact that people try to misbehave with me or even my siblings, I was tagged a trouble maker, lolz.
As time goes by, I came to understand that peace was the best anywhere and anytime after I almost got blind 🙂. Back then in school I was a very jovial person and I always like standing up for people especially when I know they are being oppressed even though I was not strong 😅. So on that faithful day, I had a misunderstanding with a friend, he was a boy and we both had the same name (Eseoghene) he was a boy-girl, he likes acting like a girl even when he was a boy. I thought I liked trouble until I meet him and due to the misunderstanding, we got into a fight and that was how he mistakenly injured my eyes and that was because I had already promised myself not to fight anymore the day before that incident happened (the truth is I was not strong like I said before 😅).
The reason for this story is, I had learned that peace is better than war in a very hard way and that is what we see in our world even today. So may countries go against other countries just to prove that they are more powerful than them. The war we see today didn't just start one day, no, it started from a very young mind. So many parents here in Nigeria encourage their children to always fight back when they are being treated harshly instead of telling them to flee from it. And as these children grow older, they don't see anything wrong with retaliating and that is how they grow up to be the adults that support wars today.
This is a first half of my entry for the #speekpeece and my partner 
's second half
's second halfIt was a very sunny day, so I and my bestie decided to take a walk around the area and all that, catch some fun, and do stuff. So on our way, we met one of our friends and we decided to chill together, she suggested that we should go swimming since the afternoon was so hot so we went home to change our outfits and get our swimming kits and then we headed out.
When we got to the pool there were so many people there but we still wanted to swim, either way, so after having a few drinks we went to change into our swimming kits and get our heads deep into the water. Just so you know am a swimmer among my friends, I learned how to swim from an after-school party we did after our school leaving exam we did a pool party that was how I learned how to swim, okay enough about how I learned how to swim. Back to reality, while I was swimming with my friends a guy from the place came to meet one of my friends and asked for her contact which she gave to him and we continue swimming.
So that day passed and my friend told me she has been chatting with the guy she gave her number to and that they are getting along. I was happy for her maybe this one guy can change her heart about men in general and guess what I was right, he did change her mind towards men they became lovers and life continued. So on one Sunday morning, I wasn't feeling too strong to go church, so I decided to rest at home, but then I got a call from my bestie saying that she called her boyfriend and another lady picked it up and told her she was stupid and she blocked her number.
I was angry at first and I was also thinking of what to do then I called our other friend and explained what happened to her and she is the rudest and more aggressive got angry said we should go and meet the girl at where she was when we got there we met my friend's boyfriend and he told us the girl was not at his place we insisted but he told us she was not there and that she took his phone out, so we left promising to come back but my bestie already came from her house and when we went back, the was around and was shouting that she was going to beat my bestie.
At first, I was thinking of taking the issue violently when I realized that it was not going to work that way because what we needed at that time was peace so I asked for a little time to have a chit-chat with the other girl. And with that, I was able to talk to the girl calmly and got information from the girl I told her she was not supposed to act that way to a person she does not know and I was able to put things in order by making peace with her. Though my friend was still angry at her boyfriend but I was able to calm her down and made her understand what happened so the whole issue was resolved in peace and everyone lived happily ever after.
So what am I trying to bring out of this story? Not every issue needs violence there should always be peace and also someone that can be like God sent to create peace. And peace should always be our keyword, let's share peace always.
This is our entry for the #speekpeece week 2 and it was done as a team, myself and