No Set Answer or Is There

Love sets off emotional sparks and gets the adrenalin going, making the heart beat faster and bringing a sense of purpose into a person’s life. Love is acceptance of self by self, as well as other’s in the circle of life. So is it better to love than hate?

Hate, also sets off emotional sparks as well, speeding the heartbeat, increasing the flow of blood that courses through our veins. Hate allows us to rant, to shout, to scream, and those are all things that in essence helps a person to rid themselves of all the unnecessary things stored in their mind.

But I have often thought hate is a good way to cleanse what troubles me for afterward, I feel relaxed, content.

Love, on the other hand; it wrestles with all of our emotions (including hate) and can bring in a third word ... jealousy which leads to a different kind of hate, closer to envious. But that’s a subject for another time, another place.

Love and hate, two complete opposites that sit on the fence of our emotional life, directing the traffic we run across. You can neither run nor hide from these two four-letter words. They are in our vocabulary forever.

Would I prefer love over hate? Certainly. But like most things, you can’t have one without the other; like bread and butter, bacon and eggs. Words that are a perfect match.

And hate is also a strong word that can mean a dislike for someone or some thing you are passionate over, and not the passion we encounter via love. Passionate as an ultra-strong dislike. I really don’t like to use that word when revealing my thoughts aloud to people. It makes me feel biased and somewhat of a bigot.

Yet, love is also a word I rarely use. It isn’t a word meant to fall from lips, at least with a person. It’s fine to say “I love that movie” or “I love the way you wrote that story” ... you get the idea. But to tell someone you love them, is a commitment, and not to be taken lightly. And once that happens, other responsibiulities come into the fray, and that too, is a story for another time.

So love or hate, you decide. I just offered up thoughts.