More Koolaid, Please

The thing I don't understand about the world is how HATE controls everything.

It's a strong word--stronger, I think, than most people realize. There is a difference between disliking and hating, and hating is obviously the more powerful of the two.

Hate is exactly the opposite of love, but they work very much the same way. The way I view it, at least. If you love someone once, you love them forever. Maybe not in exactly the same way, but it never really goes away completely. That's because love is bigger than anything else you may ever feel for them. Hate works the same way. When you really hate someone, you feel it forever. Maybe only a tiny little twinge, but there's still a grudge sitting there that won't ever get up and leave.

It's fairly common to hate. It's accepted by our society to be rude and mean, and to bully others to get what we want, and to care only about ourselves. It's suddenly attractive to be obnoxious, heartless, and cruel. Our country as a whole is a perfect example of how petty, stupid things get in the way and cause MASSIVE voids between people, encouraging hate and spreading it among the masses only to create further damage. It doesn't unite anyone. That is a lie. A common hate does not bring people together, it separates them even further.

Whether you are aware of it or not, you have a label. And someone else, with a different label, doesn't like you because your label and theirs are DIFFERENT. You think differently or act differently, attend a different church or support a different political candidate. They don't hate you, but they think they do. Because we are so close minded as a society, every time we dislike or disagree with something, it becomes HATE. And remember what hate does? It separates people.

I do not know everything. And no, I am not a perfect. I make mistakes and I say mean things about people that I wish I could take back. I am constantly working on that. Mostly because it makes me so angry that these simple feelings are transformed into something so powerful that people are destroyed, countries are bombed to smithereens, and citizens of the same community can't look each other in the eye and have reasonable, respectful discussion about things that effect everyone equally. We're not supposed to be working against one another, but it seems that very few people know how to work together.

I already know that what I say matters very little in the whole scheme of things.

But think about it.