“Hatred
is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows
where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword.
When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently
you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at
yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of.”
- Haruki Murakami
Most hatred is
based on fear, one way or another. It's often hard to detect behind
the pain and wall of hatred but it's almost always there; like a warm
woolly cardigan under a black leather jacket on a winters day. Warm,
safe, comfortable and unseen. I suppose that's one of the reasons why
people tend to cling to their hates so stubbornly, they sense that
once the hate is gone they will be forced to deal with the pain and
fears that may have never seen the light of day.
And so many of us
find solace in the familiarity of our pain as it justifies our fears
and our hates as they protect us from the vulnerability of getting
hurt. But just for a moment imagine a world without hate, without
pain and the fear behind it all. What would it look like? A world
with vulnerability and an infinite for people to love.
“As long as you
hate, there will be people to hate.” - George Harrison
