The Hate You Carry
You ought to put it down, the hate you carry. It’s heavy, it’s
weighing you down the hate you carry.But
it seems no matter how heavy it is you can’t put it down because it has become
a part of you. To put it down would be for you like cutting off your own arm or
leg, plucking out your eye. It’s under your skin and embedded in your brain,
your very being. It’s reinforced, validated and told to you that is right by
those you trust look up to or look to and respect or you are told to trust and
respect.
The hate you carry is so heavy that it has caused a shadow
to come over you like a veil. That veil
too is heavy hanging like a coat of mail (a
jacket covered with or composed of metal rings or plates used for armor)
all around you. Just the thought of lifting that weighty veil to see what’s on
the other side is so frightening that you keep your distance from It, so you’re
not even tempted to peek out from any side. It’s infectious the hate you carry
because you transfer it to your children, family, friends and you even spew it
out angrily like an erupting volcano to strangers, you live it.
What’s worse than that is when you choose to hate even
though you were taught to love. Something happened that triggered that hate you
carry, that weight you picked up. Maybe it was for something that happened in
your life that you feel gave you this reason to hate. Was it some form of
disrespect, a broken heart, a disparity or a lost opportunity of some kind? Did
you allow an event or two in your life to forever poison you?
It can come on easily and hastily in some cases with one bad
experience that hate. The hate you carry festers, grows into a monster living
inside of you that breathes out a foul fire that not only consumes others, but
has consumed you.
It’s not natural, the hate you carry. It was taught to you
and those that taught it to you, well they’re carrying the same thing you are
and maybe even a little heavier. It’s in school books, the media, some
churches, associations and homes the hate you carry. No child is born with it
in their heart or mind, it’s taught. When a baby is hungry it does not matter
what ethnicity, race, religion or economic class the woman is that nurses it. A breast is a breast. As a matter of fact,
when in need neither does their mother.
The hate you carry is so heavy that you allow it to weigh
you down, so far down you’ll let it kill you, take you to the grave instead of
putting it down, or at least aside to live. Well maybe to live you may put it
aside. For a blood transfusion or
transplant a few may put it aside, but some would choose to die clutching that
hate. Many innocent people have died because of the hate you carry, you have
condoned murder and even taken part in it either by commission or omission.
It’s like a willful blindness the hate you carry. It doesn’t
allow you to see the truth, even If that truth is to your benefit. It doesn’t
allow you to see the hurt or suffering it causes others when you hate like
that. That blindness covers your eyes so that you can’t see the innocent or
innocence. In fact, it has robbed you of your own innocence, your purity. For
to be innocent means to be, “lack of guile or corruption”.
It’s not good for you or anyone else the hate you carry. It
causes you undue stress which leads to a myriad of diseases and other health
challenges. I bet you’ve even lost sleep because of it because you went to bed
with vile thoughts. You can’t enjoy life
fully because of the hate you carry because it doesn’t allow you to embrace the
full beauty of this world because your hate shades your views. You’re trapped
by that hate. You can’t even be the best you could possibly be because you
can’t grow. Once you’ve decided not to admit your wrongs or mistakes you’ve
stunted your own growth, limited your own vision and choices. But I bet you
blame others for that, point your finger at certain groups claiming it’s their
fault when in fact it’s you in your own way.
Well I’m sorry for you. You are living a sad existence
because you have decided to deny so much of what is good. I don’t hate you, in
fact I love you, but I may dislike you because of your ways. It’s not entirely
your fault, it’s what you’ve been taught or decided to pick up, but you have a
chance to do better, live better and teach others better. I imagine that to
change or to try and break free of that hate you carry is frightening since you
will have to deny yourself, family and friends, education and this system we
live in to rebuild yourself.
You can’t experience the fullness of love because of the
hate you carry, so you can’t be embraced, can’t be fully loved because of your
coat of mail.
If you let love of all be the root of who you are and what
you do, I promise you the world will be a different place and a joy that you’ve
never experienced will find its way into your heart.
It’s heavy, put it down, you’ve carried it too long, that
hate you carry. Relax! Don’t get angry with me because I’m pointing all this
out to you. You don’t know me or most of the people you hate. I have not
pointed my finger at any one person, group, race, religion, gender or any
social or economic group. In fact, if reading this causes you to be angry at me
for this article then you’ve identified yourself.
If you have breath in your body you have the ability to
change, to lay down the burden, to peel it off, shed the hate you carry and
choose to love. I didn’t say like everybody, agree with everything, but love
despite any one’s view, flaws, differences. You have a chance to be a leader of
yourself and others.
The choice is yours and one thing is for sure, love or hate
you will be held accountable for it as we all will one day.
Peace and blessings
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