The Curved Blade

The world has its share of beautiful, wonderful things. Yet deep inside these treasures are also “unpleasant things”. They may sometimes be buried underneath or showed in the surface. What matters is how you look at them. Bad may be bad and good may be good. But it all boils down to the point of view.

                                     

One of the harsh realities in the world can be found not in the external part of it, but on the inside of every being. Hate- a very strong feeling of dislike; an intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger or sense of injury as how Merriam –Webster defines it. How do I define it? Well, for me it is an intense feeling of hurt and dislike at the same time. There are many aspects of hate depending on to what or whom is it addressed to. We may hate things, events, ideas, people and etc. Name it, you can hate it. They may be two reasons why we hate things, it could either be we just hate them (something that comes naturally) like it just did not passed our standards. Second, is that we loved it or someone for a long time and that he/she turned out to be someone you thought he/she could never be. And that’s how love is overpowered by hate, or so it’s just how you perceive it.

We may think that hate it is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us, but hate is a curved blade. The harm we do to the person we hate, we do to ourselves. However, hate makes us grow, if we take it positively. We hate poverty so we will try to eradicate it. You hate your life? So make it better. You hate someone? You’ll learn to appreciate the people you don’t hate. You hate yourself? in the end you’ll dicover how better you are.

Hate is not an ugly word. neither it is the complete opposite of love. It is a lesson. A signal. An emotion. A development. A feeling which takes a lot to define.

They say there is a thin line between loving and hating. I say maybe there is. No matter what, it is all in us if we cultivate that hate. It may grow or disintegrate, bloom or fade. It can also be the driving force in making ourselves better or worse.

#Prompt: Write about something ugly: war, fear, hate or cruelty, but find a “silver lining” in it.

#September 7, 2015