What Makes The World Go Round?

Wrote this as a short speech for a class. Prompt: "_______ Makes The World Go Round."

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Approximately 4.6 billion years ago a luminary near our solar system was destroyed in a supernova. The resulting shock wave caused the Earth to begin circumvolving on its axis. According to Newton's first law of motion, an object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force, usually friction. Because there is no friction in the vacuum of space to hinder or halt the Earth's rotation, it continues its constant, steady gyration to this day, hindered only by the slight friction caused by the revolution of our lunar satellite.
Just kidding.
But seriously, what makes our world go round? Some would say love. Some would say money. To me, one of the major things that affects us is tolerance. Tolerance makes our world go round.
Tolerance doesn't mean open-armed love. Tolerance means learning to accept people and things the way they are, even if we may not agree with them. Every single one of us has to tolerate people to some extent. For some, we have to suffer with having siblings. Some of us have trouble putting up with our parents. Even more of us can barely stand our classes or our teachers. We all try to tolerate things or people we may not want to.
But for some reason, on a worldwide scale, we can't seem to do this. The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have been warring for a long time. The middle east is constantly in a state of turmoil. Mass murder happens every single day – simply because people can't tolerate each other. If, on a worldwide scale, we could learn to simply “put up” with each other, the way we do our siblings, imagine how much better life would be! If we could find the same kind of fragile peace all over the world that we seem to have in our homes, schools, and towns, imagine how many lives would be saved! Imagine how many parents would be overjoyed just to have their children safe! Imagine how much easier it would be just to survive in a world where people could learn to tolerate one another.
Tolerance affects us all in a very real way. In fact, if we don't learn to tolerate one another, and learn to do it soon, we will destroy each other. It's inevitable. If you're following me here, you'll understand that learning tolerance isn't only what makes our world go round, it's the only way to make sure our world keeps going round.