"People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because they were ignorant. But nothing has changed. People still hate what they don't understand."
- J. Matthew Nespoli
Looking around me everyday I see new posts on social media websites, more news on TV and Internet and Newspapers on act acts around the world. I see more peoples hateful responses to the hate. I see peoples hateful responses to the hateful responses to the hate.
And my stomach begins to churn.
I have to resist the urge to cry.
And sometimes even some of the responses invoke an anger in me that tempts me to response in a hateful way as well.
We all know that Love is contagious and spreads the more it's given but.. hate is so much more powerful. It sneaks up on us in the most unexpected of ways and in the most unexpected places. In today's world there are blatant and ugly displays of nationality racism, Sexuality racism, Breed Stereotyping, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. There is SO much hate in the world I could not possibly take the time to list any more because it literally could go on... forever.Hate...as it just so happens...is contagious.
People are teaching their children to hate. People are teaching others to be afraid of things. People are learning to be afraid of being themselves or of just other people in general because of this monstrosity of a society we call "civilization." And when I think about it I am overwhelmed with a huge deep sadness. Even writing this article I'm struggling not to cry and my heart is so heavy it feels as if at any moment it could drop into my stomach.
Why do people hate?
This is an absolutely genuine question. Is it ignorance? The fear of the unknown? Were you taught to hate something by your parents as a child? Did something bad happen to you causing you to despise the object/people of your affliction? Do you even have a reason? And to the people who preach about morality to their peers, or their children or even to themselves? Do you turn another cheek at any given time? Can you HONESTLY tell me a reason at all? Or when you think about WHY you hate it, are all you come up with are empty lame excuses. Do you blame Religion for your hate? Do you honestly feel there is ever a good reason to hate something to the point of tragedy?
Because like it or not - your hate is an automatic tragedy.
It's tragic your life is interrupted by the foulest negativity any of us can induce on ourselves. It's tragic your energy is wasted on such darkness when there is so much love we could give. It's pathetic that you can't take the time to try and understand what it is that you hate so you can try to accept it. Because in the end...everything we hate is an inevitability. And taking the time to feel foul against it is nothing but a waste of yourself. It's a waste of what purity you could have within you. It's a contribution to the heavy cloud of ugliness that is within the human populous. It's an additional reason why when we look in the mirror we have insecurities or despise what we see.
And what's a further tragedy...
Seeds of hate are sown from the smallest harvests of careless statements, thoughts, or actions.
A small careless statement, a floating judgemental thought, an deed done without thinking it through. Hate is done through the smallest and biggest of things. And once it's born it's so incredibly hard to let acceptance and love back in. And even the smallest tendrils of hate are able to grow. And they do. Hate had a tendency to grow, and multiply, and spread. It's a plague. To me..hate is one of the worst diseases of mankind. It's saddest thing. because once a person begins to hate...they are never the same again.
Remember when we were kids and hate did not exist in our arsenal of feelings? I do.
And what's the saddest thing is even I have been infected by hate. Thankfully I'm able to recognize it... and once I do I take the time to understand what it is I'm hating and find a way to accept it or reconcile with it. Because hate simply takes too much of my precious energy. Because I am way to busy trying to fight off the negativity of others to feel negativity of my own.
And what's the saddest thing is even I have been infected by hate. Thankfully I'm able to recognize it... and once I do I take the time to understand what it is I'm hating and find a way to accept it or reconcile with it. Because hate simply takes too much of my precious energy. Because I am way to busy trying to fight off the negativity of others to feel negativity of my own.
And it's so hard to do. Because hate sows the seeds of more hate and it's infectious like a virus...more so infact. Nothing good ever comes from hate. Sadness, violence, death, pain, and agony. Those my friends are the symptoms of hate. And NOT just for the recipient of a persons hate either.
If you have EVER thought that you wanted to be a better person - start by trying to rid yourself of hate.
It's hard. But it is possible. Because when I'm not staring out into a void filled with people hurting each other with words and iron and fist, struggling against the empathic vibe of hate that feels like heavy heat that feels like a crushing weight on my heart... I'm focusing on the tendrils of light coming out of the gloom. The sparks of light and love that are people reconciling with things they hate or dislike every day. People who have the strength and passion to better themselves by shedding discrimination and hatred for each other and everything around them.
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