Sunday, May 24, 2015

Hate



Hate

I can't say that I have ever hated anyone.

Hate is such a strong emotion. It can consume your every waking minute, and it requires far too much energy and will for me to bother with it.

I do know others who hate, and that seems to be all they can talk about — how much the object of that hatred is just this or that — always something negative, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Sometimes, I think hate is mixed in with feelings of love.

To hate means that you must have some sort of connection with the other person, possibly even a positive relationship that went sour, for whatever reason.

Love grows cold, friendships lose vitality, family ties unravel, and the result is a confusion of feelings that leave you drifting from emotion to emotion. It's all sort of like a smoothie of anger and affection whipped up in a blender and poured out in a tall glass. But anger and affection never mix well, and there are always these chunks of spite and angst floating around the bottom of the glass. It's a tough swallow.

Now, this is not to say that I have loved everyone in my life. Some people have troubled me greatly, usually the liars and frauds that drift around like ragweed pollen in the wind. Surprisingly enough, however, I have never made that leap to hate. Usually, I stop short of falling into the pit of hatred. Those people earn my disregard, and that's the end of it. I don't necessarily wish them well, but neither do I wish them harm.

They simply cease to exist in my universe.
 






 








 
 


Comments? Questions? Abuse? Innuendoes?
Click Here









© Kennedy James. All rights reserved.

All material in this site is copyrighted under International Copyright Law. Reproduction of original content, in any form and in whole or in part, save for fair use exemption, is prohibited by the author of this site without expressed, written permission.


 Powered by Blogger