War Equals Peace

  War: a time of violence and bloodshed. When thinking of the word, I automatically think death. I see people losing parents, siblings, and children. Although that is all true, with war comes serenity and peace. How, one may ask. Well, the main purpose of war is to solve a problem. Not all problems can be solved with words, and sometimes battles are needed in order to prove which side will be the winner. When the problem is solved, one side obtains peace by knowing they have succeeded, and the others know where they stand, and have relief that the time of suffering has ended.
  A resolution is what war aims to provide. Without a resolution, people would be uneasy and unhappy. Without war, there would be no resolution, therefore no peace. The words war and peace are perfect antonyms, and so they complete each other. The word peace would not exist without its comparative to war. In order for people to appreciate and understand what peace means, they must go through war. Without knowing war, you wouldn’t know peace, and without knowing peace, you wouldn’t know war.
  There’s an African proverb that I find illustrates my point; it states, “However long the night, the dawn will break.” Here, by saying the night is long, the author is referring to a harsh time. The dawn is the coming of happiness. War is exactly the same. It is scary and dark, like the long night, but in the end there will come peace and happiness. When the war is over, people will feel relieved and have an enormous burden lifted from them. All of their prior fears and worries will no longer matter since the biggest issue they have been facing (war), will have ended. Under that circumstance, I believe it to be plausible to say that war, ultimately, leads to, and is peace.