Hatred: is love really the cure?

It takes just as much energy (if not more) to hate as it does to love.

Just like love, it’s not always at first sight. It grows over time and work, and it almost always devours you.

Especially if you have a large capacity to love.

I don’t think there’s a cure to hatred. At least, it's not one that works for everyone.

Personally, I’ve found that hatred is like a slow boiling pot - you’ve got lots of time to get it off the heat source before it boils over.

Some of the best advice I’ve ever received:

If you feel like you hate everyone, eat something.

If you feel like everyone hates you, sleep.

If you feel like you hate yourself, go shower. (A bath might work, but I don’t know for sure… I can’t get my head around the soaking in your own wet dirt part.)

And last but not least, if you feel like everyone hates everyone, go outside.

Unpopular opinion: the world is full of hate, and love isn’t the answer; it might be the problem, or at least it makes the problem worse.

Part of me “hates” sympathising with villains, but they sometimes have a point.

“In this world, wherever there is light - there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exists, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars, and hatred is born to protect love…” - Madara Uchiha.

Some people’s pots have just been put on low heat. Other people have reached a mild simmer. And many people are boiling over, and that’s the ugliness we see.

Trying to stamp out hatred with a love injection is a temporary fix. We need to learn to recognise it within ourselves and take the pot off the stove.

PS. Madra’s Speech is perhaps the single most incredible moment in anime history. Perhaps the best villain monologue of all time. If you’re not into anime, that’s cool, but watching all 344 episodes leading up to that speech is worth it. (Save for the filler episodes… those are kinda unnecessary.)