Hate is but a natural feeling towards someone or something. In fact, it may sometimes be justified by several reasons. It could be an indication that our right is being stepped on. It could be a symptom indicating that there is conflict between our inner self and our outside environment. At other times, hate may not be justified. It is sometimes triggered by jealousy or envy. Or pride. And yet in certain instances, hate is neither right nor wrong. It is simply a defense against pain, humiliation, or anything that degrades us as a human being.
Hate is but natural, but immersing ourselves in this emotion for a long time is destructive. Hate destroys the person that harbors it, more than the person to which hate is directed. Hate eats at the heart and the mind, and its primary victim is the one that feels it.
They say “he who angers you conquers you.” True. By feeling hatred, we let another person, a thing, or a situation affect our sense of peace and destroy the harmony within us. And the victim? None other than ourselves.
So while feeling hate is natural, we must not allow it to reside in our heart for a long time. We must not nurture it. We must not allow it to grow into a monster that will soon kill us.
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