Love and Hate

As human beings we tend to be ruled by our emotions. Our ability to feel and understand most of these emotions separate us from the other lifeforms on this planet. However, emotions are not easy things to deal with, more often then not they can leave us confused and disoriented to a certain degree. Many people say that the two most powerful emotions are love and hate. These two emotions, while both extremes, are really quite closely related.

Emotions are generally broken down on a line reaching from Love, at point A, to Hate, all the way at the other end which is Point B. In between are the good emotions, in the middle of which sits Apathy. On the Love side of things you have the 'good' emotions: Joy, Happiness, Caring, Empathy, etc etc... leading to apathy in the middle, and then progressing to the Hate side of things, the 'bad' emotions: Anger, Indifference, Jealousy, Sadness, etc etc...

Now, what if we looked at these emotions as if they were not on a straight line, but rather a circle. Take that line at Apathy in the middle and bend it so that Love and Hate connect at the top. Why do a circle and not the line? Because emotions are not flat, they don't lead us in a perfect line from one thing to the next. Love and Hate and the two most involved emotions, the ones that cause us the most hurt, or happiness depending on the situation.

Love is said to be bliss. Happiness, joy, and everything wonderful all rolled up into one simple little word. One can't live without it, or if they do they'll have a sad life not knowing what it was. True love is the rarest thing anyone can find, and it should be treasured like the precious jewel it is.

Hate is the opposite. Called the most vile of emotions it can be violent and possessive, it can lead normal people to do things they never thought they could do. Hate lingers, it festers. Given time Hate can make the sweetest person into a rage filled devil, unrecognizable even to their closest friends and family.

Love gone bad can turn to Hate faster then the drop of a hat. Those two emotions, those extremes at either end of the line are more closely related then most believe. Both are primal instincts: Love is caused in part by the human need to reproduce, to find someone to live with who we can depend on for support, Hate is caused in part by the need to protect what is our from others. All other emotions come from these two, these sisters at the ends of a line, together at the top of the circle because they are almost one in the same.

Apathy is the lack of emotion, the lack of caring. It is at the bottom of the circle because without it, we are no more then animals with large highly functioning brains.






A little something for you to chew on.... I'm going to bed.