Inner Peace

Most people think that inner peace is something you arrive at through meditation and quiet reflection, and while that might help, real inner peace is first bludgeoned into us by terrible repetition and age. Then you sit quietly and relive it over and over again until you realize what you already knew. You have no control over the actions of others, or the whims of the universe, or the chance your cells might mutate and turn on you or your brain chemistry might steal who you really are. Inner peace is the acceptance that you hardly have any say in many of the things that affect your life, and you wouldn't even conceive of the concept of inner peace if your life wasn't filled with turmoil in the first place. It's that turmoil that drives any peace you might find one day, if you're very lucky and you've been paying attention.