Hate & Hurt
An Essay By
Matt Fuller
Hate and hurt are things that world does not need. However, they are part of our world and they need to be dealt with. Hate is an equivalant of evil, not the person you "hate". Hate may be just a word, but I consider it derragatory, along with the "N" and "F" words.
People in America have seemed to developed a hatred for middle eastern people. Why? They did nothing wrong. A person who shares the some of the same beliefs, and the same religon did something hateful (there's that word again), not the Afghans. Afghani people may worship in a different way, but they still believe in the same god that we do. They just choose to worship him differently and call him by a different name. No middle eastern person needs to be stereotyped. Stereotypes are an evil in this world. They have been, also. Stereotypes killed one third of the jewish population during the Holocaust. People from the middle east are people none the less. They still work. They pray. They try to live their life the way it should be lived, freely.
Hurt is something that seems to appear, even though we try to avoid it. Hurt is not only having someone punch you in the face, leaving you with a black eye. Hurt can also come from the inside. When that person punches you in the eye, the eye color turns back to the normal color. However, when you hurt someone emotionally, the hurt remaines. For how long? Maybe a day or two. Maybe a month. Maybe a year. Maybe a lifetime. When you hurt a person, most of the time you hurt yourself. And that pain is only healed by the person you hurt. And that is if they forgive you. But if not, you just have to live with it. It's the sad truth, but it needed to be said.
I felt it necessary to write the above essay. I didn't write it to repremand someone, I wrote it to give anyone who reads this a new sense of reasoning about hate; and a true idea of hurt. I wrote this with no direct help from anyone, although some did inspire me to write this. I urge you to send a link to my site to you friends, and enemies alike. Please, put a link on your site to this essay, because the more people that read this message, the more that will understand.
Hillbilly Shmu