The Illusion of Hate

The Illusion of Hate

How can you be a human being and feel hate? It’s so far from our natural state. Matter of fact it is the opposite of our natural state. Have you noticed that people who “hate” something or someone are miserable? You can’t hate something and be happy. You can’t hate something and feel love towards anything, even towards your “noble” cause. You can’t hate anything and love yourself. It’s is the law of the universe. What people perceive as hate is unclarity. I think the majority of people think the way I do about the word “hate”. I may dislike something so intensely it’s painful, but to hate means you want to annihilate. The caliber of the word “hate” is incomparable, it’s not in humanity’s diction; we were made of pure positive love. Hating anything will only destroy you.

It’s like the fable, “The Fox and the Grapes”. The fox sees the most beautiful and luscious grapes sitting high on the branches of a tree. The fox is mesmerized by them and recites an ode to their perfection.

So, he jumps as high as he can to get them and gives this task two or three attempts then gives up. He doesn’t have the ability to jump high enough to reach the grapes or the desire to problem solve another solution so decides, no he is convicted to his newfound hatred of those grapes. As he walks away he mutters their unworthiness, their obviously sour taste and disdain.

It’s 2020. That fable written by Aesop was recorded between 620 and 564 BCE. We recite these fables to our children and discuss their moral in an effect to teach our youth how to act in a civilized and loving world-a better world. But their parents day in and day out play the role of the fox. Our children model everything we do. Their happiness depends on our ability to find clarity, understanding, and unconditional love even to things we do not agree with or trigger us.

The fox hated the grapes because he hated something within himself that was trigged at that exact moment and instead of being grateful for that experience and the need to reflect and grow he projected hatred onto something else and thus also caused his own lack of alignment to love and his own lack of self-worth.

Let's teach our kids to do better by actually monitoring ourselves and doing better. Do the work.