by D, Sacramento
“We hate so fast and we love too slow.” – Pink
Honestly, I do agree with this week’s quote. It made me think differently because I thought it was normal to hate people. Hatred comes very naturally and easy to most people. Small, simple things can tick you off to hate someone and that hate can last as long as you live. Shoot, nowadays it’s common to hate people that you never even met.
When you think about gangs, most the people who despise each other never even saw each other in person, only over social media. Years and years of bloodshed and hatred over situations and people that don’t even involve them. I cannot be a hypocrite because I have been involved in this hatred and have hated people for the dumbest, smallest reasons.
I think the reason hatred is so easily passed out and shown is because it has no emotional consequences. Mutual hatred can have many physical consequences, maybe engaging in a fight, and if severe enough, may even cost death. I guess these consequences are easy to look past. Why? I have no idea because those endings are way more severe than a broken heart.
With love, you have to have trust. Trust that the person will love you back and never betray you. The emotional pain that love can give is indescribable. No one wants to feel that disappointment and heartbreak, so they do not engage in love. Me personally, I’m scared to love because I’ve only got the bad experience part of it.
Another reason for why love is not easily given out is because they never were introduced to love and how to express themselves. “Tough love” often does more harm than good. It causes those to not show emotions besides anger, and anger goes hand in hand with hate.
People grow up being bred to hate people and have that hatred following them throughout their lives. So why is it so easy to look past the outcomes of hate that are way more severe? But people are scared of the confrontational outcome that may come with love. It’s not even a for sure thing with love as it is with hate.