If Hate is a Malignancy, Love Surely Must Be the Cure

When you think of a “hateful” person, what do you think of? Someone with a biting sarcasm and so much nastiness about them that they’re pretty much a human repellent? I’ve known a few people like that - so mean-spirited it’s a wonder they could stand themselves.

Then again, maybe they couldn’t and that’s why they’re so mean.

I’m actually not thinking about the word “hateful” in regards to how a person acts, though. I’m thinking about the following definition of the word:

Hateful - full of or expressing hate; malignant

Sadly, there are a lot of people who are full of hate and this makes them, just as the definition says, malignant (1. disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately 2. very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect. ). I can’t imagine that anyone would wake up in the morning and tell their cat, “I’d sure like to be malignant today! Yep, that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to spread destruction, suffering, and hatred. If I get cracking, maybe I can have a harmful influence on 10 people or more!”

Nah. Maybe I’m naive, but I doubt there are any human grinches walking around. More likely than not, having a sour disposition has crept up on them and they don’t even realize it. They’ve become a negative, cynical, pessimistic, and hateful person without even realizing it.

That’s how all bad habits take root in our lives. Over time, they slowly soak into us until they become us. If left unhalted, they come to define us. Think for a minute about the people you know - most of them, when you think of their name, conjure up an attribute or characteristic. Personally, I can’t think of anything worse than to be considered “hateful.”

What concerns me is the fact that, with the popularity of blogs and forums, a lot of people feel that they’ll only be listened to, or they’ll only generate laughs, if they spread negativity and hate. Personally, I don’t find them so entertaining.

I was thinking earlier about some of my favorite people. I’ve always been particularly fond of people who are agreeable, funny, and kind-hearted. People who are so busy living their own lives and trying to perfect the person in the mirror that they haven’t time time to criticize and demean people around them.

Show me that sort of individual and I’ll walk to the ends of the world with them. I’m lucky to have a great number of people around me who fit that bill.

The next time you catch yourself even thinking something mean or hateful about another person, catch yourself and MAKE yourself think something positive about them instead. After a while you will have developed a newer, better habit and no one will benefit from it any more than you will.

Think about it this way, the way we see others is the way we look at the world. Do you want your view of the world to be beautiful and happy or ugly and miserable?

Not much of a choice is there?

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