Hatred: Is It Really Worth It?
Judy Ramsook
October 03, 2005
Sometimes along the path of life you meet a person or persons and without even giving that person or persons an opportunity to get to know them, an opinion about them is formed.
Sometimes those persons are liked for whatever reason, and then there are some who are hated for some cause or the other.
To add to this, the person who is consumed with all that hate is spending time doing so to some one he/she does not even know. For in order to hate some one, some time and energy must be spent thinking about the subject of all that hatred.
One spends time and energy thinking about the things he/she hates about the person. It could be something minor such as the way the individual speaks or the way he/she laughs. And while the one doing the hating is thinking about these qualities in the other person, he/she is using up valuable time and energy.
Time and energy he/she could otherwise be spending on something more productive such as getting to know that individual before drawing a conclusion of hatred about him/her, especially if this person happens to be some one you have just been introduced to by a friend or relative.
For before one is fully aware of it, he/she could have already realised all the reasons why he/she and that person whom they just met cannot be friends or polite acquaintances.
And it happens much more frequently than anyone possibly realises. Just like some one goes to a store to shop and sees an item he/she does not like, so are some people also judged and misjudged, from their outer appearance. And why spend valuable time trying to dislike some one you do not even know?
For that extra time spent on trying to hate some one, could be used for something else, probably on that loved one next to you, something he/she might appreciate.
Especially since the world is such a busy place and family time is limited, unless you make more time to spend with your loved ones, that is. For hating has a price as well.
It could enable some one to stir up other feelings such as anger that can motivate the one doing the hating into some violent act or some other form of injury to the person who is being hated. When all that energy spent on being angry through an act of hatred towards some one an individual hardly knows can be used more wisely on something else.
It is much easier and less time and energy consuming to smile with or pay some one a compliment than it is to think about all the reasons you dislike or hate him/her.
Sometimes those persons are liked for whatever reason, and then there are some who are hated for some cause or the other.
To add to this, the person who is consumed with all that hate is spending time doing so to some one he/she does not even know. For in order to hate some one, some time and energy must be spent thinking about the subject of all that hatred.
One spends time and energy thinking about the things he/she hates about the person. It could be something minor such as the way the individual speaks or the way he/she laughs. And while the one doing the hating is thinking about these qualities in the other person, he/she is using up valuable time and energy.
Time and energy he/she could otherwise be spending on something more productive such as getting to know that individual before drawing a conclusion of hatred about him/her, especially if this person happens to be some one you have just been introduced to by a friend or relative.
For before one is fully aware of it, he/she could have already realised all the reasons why he/she and that person whom they just met cannot be friends or polite acquaintances.
And it happens much more frequently than anyone possibly realises. Just like some one goes to a store to shop and sees an item he/she does not like, so are some people also judged and misjudged, from their outer appearance. And why spend valuable time trying to dislike some one you do not even know?
For that extra time spent on trying to hate some one, could be used for something else, probably on that loved one next to you, something he/she might appreciate.
Especially since the world is such a busy place and family time is limited, unless you make more time to spend with your loved ones, that is. For hating has a price as well.
It could enable some one to stir up other feelings such as anger that can motivate the one doing the hating into some violent act or some other form of injury to the person who is being hated. When all that energy spent on being angry through an act of hatred towards some one an individual hardly knows can be used more wisely on something else.
It is much easier and less time and energy consuming to smile with or pay some one a compliment than it is to think about all the reasons you dislike or hate him/her.
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