Love-Vs-Hate

Love-vs.-Hate. To many people these words have a great deal of difference in meaning to them. To me, they are identical. Each of these words "classifies" a state of feeling or emotion supposedly different. Acoording to Webster's Dictionary, when each definition is broken down to its simplest form love means a strong psychic and physical reaction, lacking in reality or substance, experienced as the susceptibility to impression for another. Hate by definition means to have a strong psychic and physical reaction, lacking in reality or substance, experienced as the susceptibility to impression toward something. Therefore creating the possibility of interchanging the two words, love and hate. If one wants to differentiate between the two, then classify love as the physical characteristic that creates a unifying element between two people, and hate as the confliction of physical traits that creates a contradictory force between two people. At least by these definitions there is a tangible difference in meanings. Emotional arbitrariness has no place in a world established by a strict set of rules and guidelines.

Many people believe that I'm destined to live my life alone in darkness for not believing in love. Many scoff at trying to define the indefinable when asked to. I may live to an old age and be alone, and that's fine by me; but I'll be able to look myself in the mirror and realize that at least I had the guts to question the norm and not accept the things that I'm told to be the absolute truth. To accept that love and hate are at opposite ends of the spectrum is nothing more than denying your right to seek the truth in life and emerge from the darkness of deception.