I was talking to my brother and he said something to me. 'Peace and happiness are mutually exclusive to me. I don't know how to make a choice between the two'. Now this comment by him has a lot of background that I cannot share on a public platform. But I was struck by how clearly he was seeing his dilemma and how familiar this was to me. In the end, he's my brother. And I share more things with him than I have ever taken time to think about. Among the top, we were always the mediators in the fights that took place in the family. I, despite my rank in the family of the youngest child, was often involved in solving disputes and so was he.
Like me, he was motivated by a desire not to offend people and to placate the maximum number of them. I feel such a dilemma is also our common curse then.
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