VANITY CARD #7

I've never had to hate someone, never even tried.I've found it easier and much more convenient to efficiently ignore, or silently discard.
But as I have learnt, to many people I know, hate is an emotion they seamlessly grow, an emotion they constantly show and an emotion they are helplessly driven by.
I very well think they hate because they are discontented, they hate because they are threatened, they hate because they are confounded and befuddled, they hate because they lack foresight, they hate because they can't/won't see the bigger picture and they hate because that's the only emotion they have left.
But hate is a foolish emotion, as strong as it can be. It is a needless waste of mental space, a burdensome tug on an otherwise peaceful existence. It is unjustly donating your otherwise gainfully harnessed cerebral prowess to discomforting another.
But more importantly, it is an emotion that is a betrayal of one's self because hate draws the locus of one's life and thoughts away from ones self and makes one a mental slave of another, you are irked by their sight, needlessly infuriated by the happenings of their life. When you're in hate you lose yourself at no reasonable gain.
So ask yourself, must you hate that person? is whatever they did or seem to have done really worth your mental peace?...are you sure by openly hating another you are not openly harming your own self?
I'll end this vanity card by giving an advice people do not take. "Lets not base our lives and acts on emotions but principles, for emotions are fickle and temporary while principles are definitive, discerning and instructive.

-Damilola.