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Originally Posted by Wysteria
I keep coming back and re-reading this post...and thinking.
(Glok, thanks for the link...I read many of his other articles as well and really like what he has to say...& thanks for the thread!)
There's another saying about hate, please forgive me but I will paraphrase it, that goes: 'hating is like going out and taking poison and hoping and waiting for the other person to die.'
It is a very intense, passionate, painful, heady and sometimes almost crippling emotion...in ourselves.
In the end, the person that has wronged us or that we hate goes on blithely about their business. Most likely not giving a royal damn about the turmoil that they have caused. We have to deal with the emotion left in their wake and within us.
We have taken on the toxicity. We allowed ourselves to respond with hate.
I'm just thinking...just putting it out there for thought or comments. I have been thinking a lot about anger...but it is really different. I don't know. Hopefully someone else will have more input.
Wysteria Blue
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Hatred is not crippling for me. It motivated me to survive. Without the hate~ I would have been destroyed. I didn’t have the ability to hate properly because it was too powerful to grasp and my enemy was too big of a ***** to face me. I had no choice but to put my anger away.
Many years later~ I was triggered. Suddenly all the things I couldn’t grasp were raining down on me. Yeah~ I hate and I’m not ashamed of it and will not abuse myself by drinking my enemy's poison.
Now~ i know many people will say that I should just get over it but reality is, hatred matures without our knowledge but doing what is right should not be ignored because I have hatred. If I say i want to destroy a man, should justice be ignored just because he made it too personal? That isn’t logical to me. Not having the pleasure of whispering in my enemy's ear as he grasp for his last breath….That sounds rational and a path I would like to take but it doesn’t require forgiveness.