Loathing the differences

Moise Tuombemungu

                                                     Loathing the differences

                            Hatred is not the opposite of love; hate is simply the absence of love. In every way, love transcends hate. Hate engenders bitterness, separates the best of friends, slaughters lovely marriages, and murders the unique differences of people. Hate overwhelms, while love overcomes. We are born craving for love yet as we grow through this wretched life, shadows of trials cover us that we learn to also hate. It is a prison of gloom and evil that bonds our souls and emotions, and it drives us to commit atrocities that are contrary to our true self.

           In our country today we make most of our choices based upon what we feel, which bears actions of evil. There are matters that must be addressed with feelings and others that shouldn’t. People are influenced on what to hate either from important figures, religions or friends. These forces that affect our morals can sometimes be catastrophic, if they teach to abhor what should be loved.

           People detest what is different, and to hate these differences can be horrendous. For instance a lot of people execrate homosexuals. Why? Because they are who they are, and who they are is different from them, because of this difference they fear, which rejects change.

           I am certain that a person does not hate another human being, yet they despise certain aspects that make that person. Logically people commence savagery toward another, when they have dehumanized that person; this is the mother of genocides and man slaughtering another.

             I believe that to judge a human being by what a person feels can most of the time be fallacious, since at that moment the person is mostly blinded by the darkness of bigotry, and thus rationally is unable to make sound judgment. We as whole should learn to balance reason and feelings. If hate overpowers reason in judgment then it can become destructive.

           If people loved more, the world could be a better place, yet that is not the vain reality, the soul has a condition to hate and that is one of its impure imperfections. Hate can never be beneficial; we see that even hating the evil person can turn the good person evil, even to the outmost acute point of death.

            Therefore examine yourself today as a human being, in order to diminish the great hate embedded deep within your soul. I do acknowledge that this world of love is not offered to all in this world, this extinction of its existence in their life, defiles the will to live. To be loveless is to be truly life less. Peace in the world is mostly thought of as a fairy tale, a utopian world and this is due to our intense hatred for one another, peace is the manifestation of love.

          Let us not conform to the ways of foolish brutes that pursue, and thirst to became another person’s tripping stone, as to deprive another fellow of his humanity. Instead let us be transformed by the idea and preposition of our fathers, which is the stabilization of our government, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with the right to life, conceived in liberty, and showered with the will, and right to pursue happiness. These principles were built upon the foundation of love. So let us penetrate through the walls of intolerance, and break the powers of inequality, motivated by hatred. Let us shine more love, and illuminate more respect towards one another, simply since we are of the same species, humans by nature.