I don’t know what the hell I got into last night, I don’t remember smoking anything but I wrote it so I’ll post it. You’ve got to love the last spark of hope in a deeply depressed mind, contradictions and all…
If you ask people, “What is the opposite of love?” I’ll bet the most common answer is, “hate”. I say that love and hate are exact duplicates of each other with only the minor inconsistency of intent. They are opposites in intent but in the sense of emotional involvement I say they are the same. The true opposite of both love and of hate is pure apathy. Complete indifference. The key is passion. People are so afraid of being emotionally involved that they hide it away and keep from experiencing so much of what life has to offer.
We sit in our homes, watching network TV sitcoms and reality shows. Hidden away and safe from having to talk with other people. The shows are numbing us and dumbing us down, programming us to accept whatever they serve us. We have abandoned much of our natural human interaction for whatever is behind screen number one. And I do mean whatever is on that screen. We find ourselves clicking through the stations, looking for something to catch our eye rather than turning it off. All in the name of spoonfed entertainment. We invest nothing in these shows yet all the while our emotions are being drained from us. Bleached clean and returned before we knew it was gone. There are no more highs, no more lows, just the status quo, the mundane.
When you love someone, don’t be afraid to show them. The control you are afraid of losing in only an illusion in the first place. Likewise, don’t be afraid to embrace your hatred. It is only a distorted reflection of love. If you feel strongly enough about something to hate it, to truly hate it, then you are giving a lot of yourself to this thing. You are burning your energy just as fast as if you passionately loved what you profess to hate. If you choose to give so much of yourself, it will consume you, just as love will do. Which has hurt you more often in life, love or hate? Hate will hurt you when it is acted upon, love will hurt you from inaction. Hate will singe you and move on. Love can crush your soul and linger there forever. Why? Because most people invest so much of themselves in love and shun any negativity that can be construed as hate. No one doubts that there has to be dark to see light but there are those that preach love and invalidate hate.
I agree that hate will turn out to be a waste of your energy because you generate nothing but more hatred but to say that it is evil or bad, that is to say that love is just as bad. They coexist and can not live without each other.
So they are opposites, yet they are so much the same. Much like you and I. Whoever you may be. You may be very different from me in personality and physical development but beyond our surface features and down to our core, we are both humans. The same recipe was followed to make each of us and we are both part of the same consciousness. The universe is our playground, eternity is nothing but our collective experiences. There is no love, there is no hate. There is only the emotional expenditure of our energy and the consequences thereof. If we chose to explore hate, we will be mired in it, experiencing the pain and pleasure of complete emotional surrender. If we choose to explore love, the same thing will happen, we will be surrounded by more love, and we will experience the pain and pleasure of emotional surrender. Giving up that control, seeing past that illusion and realizing that by looking past the veil of “reality” we can experience more of life. Holding it all in, saving it all up for the perfect time, that’s just dying without ever having lived.
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