Love to Hate?

After all is lost in love, after everything becomes hopeless, after nothing is left to make amends for, after the end of love, why does it happen that we start hating that one person who until now meant the whole world to us? The immediate opposite of love is hate but it does not justify hating someone who was loved by all your heart. Why does it have to happen? We may choose to forget them eventually, or better still we may choose to feel nothing for them. Having a complete void of feelings for someone is possible. Why does it have to be hate? More importantly, how can we really hate the person we love?

But somehow, that is what it is. That is what always happens, to almost everyone. That is the common reaction. Maybe it is because we are in too much of a hurry to put our problems in the past. Maybe because we are too eager to ‘move on’ and get going with life that we cannot spare a moment to contemplate upon our situation and find where the real problem lies.


Hating someone is not the answer to your problems. It may be easy, but it is never right. It is nothing but cowardice. Bitching about someone who left you, or did not want you, will never help you in any way. It only lets you down, projecting you as a lesser mortal, as a baser being. It is what cowards do; because it is easy to do. It takes real courage to stand up to the face of reality and accept the goddamn truth. That is what adds to your mettle and makes you stronger than ever at facing life, at facing people. You feel good about yourself because you are riding high on truth. And truth is the only absolute in the world.

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  1. Rajiv Kumar Shukla29 January 2017 at 18:05

    Well said, I think today education by parents to a child is much more important in life

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