He who thinks, he can be good to all, is the biggest fool.
Not even God was spared of the feeling of hatred. Satan hated God because he did not believe in what God told or made them believe. He fought against him for he believed he was no less than God; he was thrown out of heaven and sent to hell when he failed in the battle against God and that is where he built his own kingdom. The emotion of hatred pre-existed men; it pre-existed life and to be fair it shall be there till the world ends or till there is only vacuum.
Who says that one needs to be loved by all; one can only live by his beliefs and if the man does not then he is nothing but a puppet to the world. What matters is not that people hate you, what matters is what is right. Great men never thought that what they were doing might offend others; they thought of what is right. The path of truth and righteousness is not the easiest to walk on they say and it has never been; when a person does good, does the right thing there would be people who would obstruct; who would create problems because that is what they think is not right in their sense but then what matters is whether your conscious is clear and that what you think will not let you feel guilty later.
Its not that the path of hatred is lonely – no, there also you will find followers who share the same belief but then it never means what you do is right. Satan was sent to hell with four other angels because they did not believe in the supremacy of God but whether what they did was right or wrong would be a matter of debate. But what matters is that the emotion of hate did exist everywhere. Jesus was crucified for some people were not happy with his beliefs and thought that he would take over their reign but that did not make Jesus wrong. We all wish to be as good as we can, we don’t wish that someone would be offended by us but in this whole journey of life, no one really made it without facing this feeling and surely more than a few times would he have faced this feeling.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
It is not of only religious or mythical people that have been punished and hated for saying the truth. Many scientists like Galileo and other have been punished for they gave theories which were not acceptable to the orthodox but what came of them is history now. They became some of the greatest people because they were not afraid of truth, they were ready to pursue their beliefs and sure they did. It does not matter whether you are hated or not because someone will always be there to hate you be it because you are so good that others like you better or because they envy the greatness of others; there are enough people to hate you for reasons more unbelievable than any.
But why fear being hated. Which person has not been hated – from Jesus to President Bush, from Galileo to the guy next door, but that cannot be a reason not to do the right thing or the thing that you believe is required to do. Hatred develops within a person because he hates something from within himself. Something he thinks should not be done whether right or wrong. Hatred develops because of the hate within. It is only when the thing that affects us do we care to hate; for the thing that we don’t care we have no feelings. It is something which affects us that creates this feeling and all we need to do is feel detached and at least you can be free of this emotion.
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us” – Hermann Hesse
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