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Tranquility is a real trait that some people have. It's not a common one.
For most people, a prerequisite feeling for tranquility, is contentment.
And trust me, no pacifist is "content" with the current state of the world. "Worry-free" is literally in the first sentence on the wikipedia page of the word, and I don't think anyone can be that, except temporarily and/or by being inebriated.
The only way I know to be tranquil, is to ignore the world, and willfully focus only on the good things in my immediate surroundings, in my life specifically.
Essentially, to get there I have to take a break from caring about most things. I don't like doing that. I want to improve things, and to do that I have to care about things to begin with.
If you had to be content with the state of the world before feeling tranquil, nobody would ever feel tranquil.
Then it's a good thing that isn't what I claimed.
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Look up the difference between "most" and "all".
Further, consider that not all people are pacifists.
Finally, note how I go on to describe how one can feel things one otherwise wouldn't, depending on what one is focused on.
You have to willfully bend my words to misinterpret what I said to mean that tranquility is an impossible state for a person to be in.