Hatred
There are only two emotions an infant can feel following its birth; wretched misery, and purest joy. The babe learns all others from observation, and from teaching. But, as the proverbial Adam and Eve learned, not all knowledge is worth knowing, and knowing some things can corrupt you.
Do not mistake me. Knowledge is my favorite tool, and I rely upon it heavily. But, there are a great many things I desire to un-know.
Foremost among these, however, is my ability to hate. Where I learnt it from, I do not know. But, when in the throes of wrath, I feel it surge throughout my body, and I fear myself in this state.
To become a healthy and wise person, hate must be removed, like a tumor that threatens your existence.
To become a healthy and wise species, we must eradicate hate, casting it off like clothing that would otherwise choke us.
We do not need the hate we harbor for those we disagree with.. Our older brothers with a tendency for the illogical. Our reckless employers who seek to run us into the ground. Our neighbors across long oceans who pray to foreign deities.
I am an idealist at heart, but I understand the world cannot lose hate one nation at a time. Such a thing would destabilize our entire system of world politics.
But, I plead, the few who read this; forsake hate. It weighs you down, it rots your heart, it poisons your mind. You learn nothing from it, you gain nothing from it, and you waste it upon those you cannot abide.
