LIVING IN PEACE

Happy Sunday, my dear friend. Today we will talk about living in peace, helping us understand how to leave a purposeful life, I'll start with a story. A young man named Chidi grew up in a bustling, noisy Lagos neighborhood where the sound of honking cars, shouting traders, and unpredictable power cuts were the norm. Despite the chaos around him, Chidi made an unusual decision. Every morning before the city came alive, he would wake up, sit by his window, and breathe deeply in silence for just ten minutes. This routine became his sacred ritual. While his friends were always complaining about life’s hardships, Chidi approached each day with calmness, handled stress better, and seemed to smile more often. When asked about his secret, he would simply say, “I choose peace every morning, before the world chooses noise.”

The truth is, many people today are fighting battles that don’t belong to them dragging burdens they were never assigned. Social media has turned everything into a race: who’s making more money, who’s marrying faster, whose kids speak better English. In all of this noise, people lose their minds, trying to prove they’re enough. But living in peace means stepping away from that table. It means realizing that peace isn’t a luxury for monks or old people, it’s a responsibility. A responsibility to protect your mind, filter your space, and create a life that feels like yours, not one that's rented from public approval.

To live in peace, you must first stop competing with people who aren’t even aware they’re in a race with you. Then, you align with your purpose, not pressure. Living in peace requires cutting off what steals your joy, saying no without guilt, setting boundaries, and learning to rest without feeling lazy. It also means minding your business, not everything demands your opinion or outrage. Sometimes, the most powerful thing you can say is nothing. Quit those emotional debts that never yield value. Cut off constant drama. Learn to forgive early, and not necessarily for them, but for your own health.

Living in peace is not about having a perfect life, it’s about building a quiet center in your soul that no noise can shake. It’s waking up and deciding to be gentle with yourself. It’s knowing that even when life gets loud, your inner world doesn’t have to. Peace doesn’t always come naturally, but it grows when you guard it. And once you find that peace, protect it like treasure. Because no matter how loud the world gets, the real win is to live in a world of your own calm.

Thank you for reading, do not forget to comment, and share with your family and friends. I wish you a blessed and productive week. See you next week.