The Empty Field of Peace

A different kind of battle outcome

We walked together across the field. It was like we had become one entity with one singular purpose. Together we exuded a power none of us had ever experienced before individually.

Our mutual strength erased all doubt. There was no turning back.

Those on the other side of the field, their guns drawn, were beginning to lose their composure. It seemed that many of them were suddenly questioning what they were ordered to do. Their inner voices were rising up and challenging the morality of their purpose.

Suddenly, one of the men put down his weapon. Then another and another. Soon, over half the men had put down their weapons but the other half still held their guns aimed at us. It seemed they were waiting for us to cross some imaginary line in the field.

As we got closer the energy of our resolve began weakening. It was palpable. We began taking slower steps as we neared that invisible line. Our own inner voices began questioning what we were doing. Doubt and fear were dissipating our energy.

And then a strange thing happened. All the men on the other side of the field who had put down their weapons began walking unarmed towards us. With this, a few more men put down their weapons and some of them began walking towards us as well.

A surge of confusion waved through us. We had no idea what was happening. A few of us began crying.

As the unarmed men kept walking towards us they began entering the line of sight of those men still holding weapons aimed at us. Those men would no longer be able to fire at us without also hitting some of their own men so more of them put down their weapons and more began walking towards us.

The energy in that field began intensifying greatly. Something was about to happen and no one on either side knew what that would be.

Soon, all the men with weapons had put them down and were walking towards us. All those men seemed to become one singular unarmed entity moving towards the singular unarmed entity that was us.

Finally, the two humans at the very front of each approaching group met — but they did not stop. Instead they walked right into each other and merged… and disappeared into thin air!

More and more people from the opposing groups met and walked into each other, disappearing. The energies of joy seemed to be exploding across the field. Eventually, every person from both sides had walked into a person from the other side and vanished along with that other person. Finally, there was not a single person left in the field.

After a while a strong wind blew across the field clearing it of all remaining energies, leaving behind only the weapons on the ground at one end of the field.

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