Of the many contradictions that exist in the world, the contrast between love and hate is perhaps the starkest. It is one that helps us value true love while understanding the ramifications of hatred. Hate is often associated to love.

Hate is easy to come by, love is not. Like all good things in this world are hard to achieve but all the bad ones are easy to get. But when you love someone deeply it is difficult to hate them back. As when you fallen deep it is difficult to climb back out. The deeper you have fallen into the pit, the fainter the light you can see. That is why they say love is blind I guess. And that is when it seems that you have no one else to hate but you can only hate yourself. For in the darkness you can only see yourself when the one you love is not guiding.

So is love = hate or hate = love? It’s a double edge sword. Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. But love can lead to sufferings, paralyzing life. Love can be blinding, confusing you and of coz love does not illuminates when you are blinded by it right?

And I dunnoe what I am getting at now…. Hah..

“You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love." "Hate is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone that you have the capacity to love because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up enough energy to hate." - Sri Chimnoy

If you love whom you cannot love and cant find anything else to hate about but yourself, what would you do? The contrast between love and hate… on the same side of the coin or opposite? or just my nonsensical ramblings..