When Women Get Together

Things change

Significant weather disturbances hampered the army’s advance against its perceived enemy. The generals kept pushing them, though. Nothing was more important than fast, total victory.

The Bakli people and the Schmakli people had been fighting each other for centuries. War was a way of life for both of them. Boys were programmed with a war mentality as early as age 5. They were trained that fighting to the death was the ultimate virtue. The greatest heroes were those who killed the most enemy people.

But Mother Nature intervened in what could have been the greatest battle ever. The two armies were amassed just fifty miles from each other. Between them was a verdant valley full of farms. Much of the food supply for both people was grown in this valley.

As the two armies began marching toward each other, crops being trampled under boot and vehicle, a horrendous storm moved over the valley. Sheets of rain and grapefruit-sized hail pounded the troops. Yet they continued to march toward their enemy, eager to kill.

Then, just as the two armies came together, a mighty tornado came out of the clouds and ripped through both armies. Weapons were torn out of the soldiers’ arms. Men went flying through the air as did vehicles. Before a single shot could be fired in the battle both armies were wiped out by the tornado. Over ninety per cent of the soldiers died and those who survived were left crippled.

The women, back in the villages, were spared but they were also tasked with rebuilding.

A couple of months after the great battle that never took place yet was won by Mother Nature, the Bakli and Schmakli women were out in the valley tending newly planted crops. At midday they would put their farm tools down and eat lunch together. They did a lot of talking.

The women decided that war was over. For peace and prosperity to happen it would be best if they came together as one people; working together, playing together, learning together, trading together, loving together, raising children together.

The women had the power to shape a whole new way of life. They took charge and created a whole new peaceful nation. In this new nation war was forbidden. They taught their male children that violence and killing is unacceptable. They taught them that those who killed were not heroes.

The new peaceful and prosperous nation run by the women had only one hero and that was Mother Nature.

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