The Truth: Hate

I know we've all at one point in life heard someone say " I wouldn't say that I hate her, but I strongly dislike her." or some variation of this sentence. In fact, I'm pretty sure everyone's guilty of at least saying it once. The reason I chose this particular topic is because I've recently caught myself saying this. As soon as the sentence left my mouth, that's when it hit me: What was I saying? It wasn't the slightest bit logical. Hate is the intense dislike or extreme aversion to someone. It's the hostility we feel when someone enters the darkest corners of our heart. It's the feeling that everyone tries to ignore and make syrupy sweet by tagging it as "dislike." I mean I can understand why, who wants to be the first to admit that there's darkness residing in them? That somewhere in life, something made them a little more cynical? A little more tainted? A little more...human? No one wants to be the first to reveal such an ugly, corrupted emotion. However we all have to start taking steps, because when it's your time God's not going to whip out a dictionary and argue with you about the semantics of hate and dislike; he's going to look in your heart and see what resides there. How can you say you don't have any hate in your heart when there are people who you wouldn't spit on if they were on fire? Places you wouldn't go if your life depended on it? Ideas, people, things, you reject because they are not your own? How can you say that? How can I? I pride myself on being open-minded but I'm the same girl who gets so angry with people and situations that I see red. The same girl who wanted to grind her heels in someone's face. The same girl who's lost her way on the path sometimes...and forgot why I'm so angry in the first place.
Tonight could be the night. We can all take steps and release the hidden darkness in our heart. Cleanse ourself truly. Let go of the "dislike" we feel. I mean we are human, we are flawed. We're not going to like everything all the time at every moment. Things are going to make us angry, things are going to boil our blood, things are going to burns us. But we must always remember forgiveness is the remedy. Love is the antidote. Acceptance is the way to make the darkness dissipate. So the next time you "dislike" someone or something, create the elixir that makes our heart invincible; add love, stir in acceptance, and create forgiveness.



~Yours Truly, Miss Niah