Do you know what you hate and why? This is the Daily Disturbance podcast with Anthony Fungheman, Markus Zusak. The only thing worse than a boy who hates you, a boy who loves you. I remember a criticism I was given when I was in my teen years, quite a while.
It was that I led girls on, you know, like show them I was interested in them. Then I turned my back when they would show some sign of reciprocation I wasn't even aware. A blind spot they called it. Now I don't know why.
Was it pride? Was it fear? Plain callousness? It took a while, but today I hate the thought of being like that.
I mean, what a mean thing, right, to do to anyone. What do you hate and why? Is it your current state of your academic life? Is it lies?
Is it your state of health? Is it the status of your romantic life? Is it that one particular bad habit? What is it that you hate and why?
I suspect because of one of two or both reasons. Number one, you hate what you hate because it is against something you truly care about. And number two, it is against someone you deeply love. But did you notice something?
I didn't ask you about someone, an actual person that you actually hate? Because hating people, I believe in themselves. Oh my gosh. Hating people themselves is a price tag not worth paying in the long run.
I'll say it again, what Gandhi said. Hate the sin, love the sinner. To those I did stupid stuff with in the past, here's something worth telling. I'm hating what we went through, but I'm still loving you.
It is against something you truly care about. Is it fairness? Is it respect? Is it integrity?
Is it community? Or perhaps it is against someone you deeply love. Is it your spouse that you're protecting? Is it your God that you wish to honor?
Is it the people you serve that you want to keep from harm's way? Is it your hamster that you wish to take care of? And so you're against anything you hate, anything that may compromise those you deeply love. Know what you hate and why?
If we hate that which goes against our core beliefs, and if we hate the harm that may come to those we deeply love, when we or some others will do something, then that's good. Hate. Keep hating. But hate the act, not the person.
Hate the loss, not the lesson, hate the violation against you, but not the response that will come from within you enough to reflect on. Time to go. Ah, I hate saying goodbye.