Letting Go of Hatred ( Through Christian Eyes)

Again, one of my earlier works. Just randomly wrote it up late at night.

On the letting go of your hatred.


One of the greatest things bringing down people these days is their hatred for things. This I find to be more fact than opinion. Think about it, who doesn’t shake their fists and scowl if a person cuts you off, or you hear someone scoff at you from far away? Everyday, some form of hatred goes around in everyone. It is inevitable, your rush to anger at the breaking of the “moral code which everyone knows to obey, and constantly breaks”. Well i will speak on this in three ways.
First, to find compassion in others, which would solve the problem of your anger at their always messing up, you must find it within yourself. Think of it this way, understand that you are only playing into the system of hate whenever you shake your fists back at the dishonest or person who messed up. This system goes something like this. You are driving along, some jerk in a jeep cuts you off and slams on to breaks to pull off very abruptly into a store right in front of you. You honk, roll your window down to shout something you know they really wont hear anyway, and sigh exasperatedly and continue your drive. When you reach your destination, a lady with 2 bags in her hand exits her car as your walking in. In a great mood you would hold the door open, but your in a rush from that jerk cutting you off, and she is pretty far away. So you walk in, and continue your day oblivious to that woman knowing you could have held the door open for her, and taking the rest of the coffee at work without making more because maybe you could be the next and you would get what is coming. Well hey! you already got cut off, thats enough for what is coming. Satan really rejoices in this system. It plays perfectly into society, especially one with people getting closer and closer together in cities, constantly bugging each other off. But what if instead, that same jerk cuts you off, slams on the breaks, pulls into the building, and you say wow, I’m glad nothing happened and he got where he needed to go without missing it. Given, I’m not saying its not hard. Its, very, very hard. The hardest part is simply remembering to find compassion! How easy is it to forget a mindset your faking. but as C.S Lewis puts it “All morals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be." You might try to fake compassion for a while, and see after a week or two that it comes easier, even after shaking your fists all your life at that very annoying person in the red jeep.
Secondly, I offer you help on how to achieve this compassion. Instead of only seeing it from your view, lets replay the same story. Don is a single father, with a child whom he just put in day care. He used to teach guitar lessons, and drive on the beach and live the life he wanted to, before his engaged fiance had their child, and left to pursue another man, leaving the child, a girl, with him. He just put the girl into daycare, and finds out he is late for his second day of his job at the office which he hates, but he took because guitar lessons don’t pay enough. He gets in his red jeep, and still doesn’t know the road by heart, he sees his office coming up closely, and the only opening is right behind him, he cuts in, fuzzy dice swerving from the rear view mirror, and pulls into the office. You shake your fists angrily, and don’t open the door for the woman with the two bags, which were containing the donuts for the meeting your both dreading. We can never know the stories of others.
And thirdly, I present to you another way of looking at it. This time, your leaving from work, tired and very angry about getting even more work from a meeting where all the donuts were gone and the coffee was all gone and you had to make more. So your driving, and this guy in a honda accord is just taking his sweet time, your getting angry cause you there’s a light you would of gone through had he, and you let out a honk when its green and he doesn’t go right away, and he turns into the same apartment complex as you, and when he gets out, you realize that that guy is one of your best friends and he wanted to make sure that he stayed right ahead of you. and all that anger, turns to happiness, because you just realized your best friend is in town, and he spotted you driving. And if we could just apply this to everyone, and give the benefit of the doubt, that we are all “in this together” then how could we hold onto this hatred? We would become very happy indeed, and satan would be quite upset this system he made where you would never realize you were keeping yourself from being happy, is suddenly broken. And now this commandment of “love your neighbor like yourself” doesn’t seem like a rule at all, but something to make sure you stay very happy indeed. God does seem to have a very funny way of making your rules very beneficial to your enjoying your life. Recognize this, and you’ll stop beating the crap outta yourself to make sure you don’t have a good time.