From time to time, my 3-year-old son will whine about how he wants something. Something like, "I want to watch Cars!" or "I want some candy!" or something else he does not really need. My standard response has become, "I want world peace." At first he was taken aback by this response. Now he tends to go bug mom about his want instead. I choose that response because it shows that the words "I want" are not some pair of magic words that can make anything happen. I thought it would help illustrate that we can get what we want, but we have to work for it. Even working at something we want a whole lifetime does not mean we will get what we want. People have been working on world peace in some incarnation or another since there was ever the realization that there is a world that we all have to find a way to exist on without killing each other off. Sure, some ideas of attaining that goal have often been, and continue to be killing off anyone who does no