Everyone says how bad hate is, but I think it protects you from getting hurt. When I was in school and people "disliked" me for no reason or were just drawn away from me because I wasn't good enough for them the only way I could stop myself from being hurt was to respond to their dislike of me with pure hatred. Then their opinions were no longer of value to me so I couldn't cry over it.

People can be as mean as they want, exclude someone, conspire against them , laugh at their pain, and make stupid witty remarks but I say "hate" and my teachers and everyone else thought I was the bad one.

I hate the human race and their social norms. Or maybe I don't. Either way it protects me since everyone else's behavior gets defended but mine.

There. I said it.

It feels like I'm from another planet. Someone will have a problem with something I said or did and I have no idea how on Earth they could think it wasn't the right thing to say or do. Do people have problems with EVERYTHING or what? I'm too sensitive? You don't like what I said when you hurt me first? Don't like the way I talk? Don't like the way I walk? Have a problem because I'm short? I'm not quick-witted enough? Get over it! I have to live with things I can't stand every day and because the rest of society disagrees I have to tolerate it.

Say/do THIS

No, not THAT way!

Then someone else does the same thing and it's either praised or okay because of the way they did it.

Just for 1 day I wish the social norm could go my way. Everyone would be so much happier without all these hypocritical social rules and restrictions.

I can't win.

Sorry, I'm really just ranting here.

NOTE: This is directed at people in RL.

[Skeezyks]

The Skeezyks hates everything & everyone... himself included...

Hate does indeed protect us from pain, and I believe that protection is sometimes needed, but at the end of the day, our pain isn't bad.. When someone says or does something harmful to us, of course we're going to be hurt, it just a normal reaction. And if we can learn to tolerate that pain long enough to get the message - that the other person did something that's unacceptable to us - we can then do what's necessary - tell the other person they hurt us and to not do it again, and if they do, draw boundaries on how much we're willing to take.

I've hated a lot in my life.. Mainly my dad because he wouldn't love me. As a child, I couldn't take the pain, so I devalued him by hating him, that way his opinion didn't matter.. But I was also abandoning myself, the girl who, had it been possible, would have cried that her dad doesn't love her. I've honoured my tears now, as an adult, and am realising my dad's sick, and that what he did was never about me.

I don't hate the human race as there's so much good in people as well.. I used to like to think everyone sucked because it confirmed what I learned early on in life - that people are bad.. But once I found the courage to ask for help, I find that more often than not, people want to give it to me.. Not one single one of us is perfect nor will we ever be, and we don't have to be. But a lot of people do a lot of good in this world, and that's the route I want to take as well. While staying away from people who are too toxic.

[Thunder Bow]

Good observation. So many use Hate to protect oneself. It is like an old friend. It is about surviving. Thus hate is hard to let go of...