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“Hate is easy, love takes courage.”
How often do we use the word “hate”. How easy it comes spewing out of our mouth like a chain of pearls falling from it’s intangible string. Hardly, anyone terms it as “displeasure” or “positive thoughts challenged” In the society today, we close ourselves up and doubt the intentions of many as everyone comes with their own goals, own passions and along the way, we get smitten by people who come into our way. Where have the simple joys of life that we once shared when we were childhood kids be found within us? Where we can embrace it?
Your wrist lies neatly along the contours of my hand while i lay my head against your beating chest inhaling the smell of alfalfa hay. There is nothing except our slow rhythmic breathing that is kept in sync. We no longer speak and loud thoughts are the only sound that pierces through the silence. Let go. Stop fighting. Let love replace all the hate. So breathe in deep, and take in the final breath, let the soft wind blow the soft tresses of your hair into my face and tonight shall be our last. There is only so much we can do, so why do i feel i’m running out of time? You and me, it’s time to save this world from all the hate.
This video is about the war in Iraq and i feel it is due to the lack of positive communications that war breaks out and hate is being brought out the worst among us. Often, we find ourselves caught within this conflict yet being helpless about it. However, every small action counts. War is indeed a terrible thing. Children are orphans in a split second and innocent homeless people watch helplessly as their house gets bomb.Psychological perspective we cant see it’s foundation of war is due to conflict of culture
Neither be cynical about love;
For in the face of all reality and disenchantment
It is perennial as the grass.
We learnt perception in class today and i found it rather enriching that how we human behaves according to society standards. We regard actions that is socially acceptable and often we find ourselves sitting on the fence between doing something against our own beliefs. We judged ourselves on how other views us and often this causes a breech between our inner emotions and stirs turmoil. Is that the foundation of hate? Where is you at people in disgust as it is no in relation according to our own mindsets. And exactly, how far will we go to push what we believe in onto others?
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I agree with you. Loving someone takes more courage than anything else. And hating someone can be done so easily.
Comment by lynlynlyn September 13, 2009 @ 9:30 amthe fastpaced world ate up all the simple joy we ever had
Comment by enyamamak September 13, 2009 @ 2:46 pmWELL WRITTEN. Very good!
Comment by berrynice September 13, 2009 @ 3:37 pmethnocentrism! i just studied it in sociology. how we judge others according to our own beliefs. pretty cool eh.
Comment by yiting- September 13, 2009 @ 3:38 pmWell written!
Comment by berrynice September 13, 2009 @ 3:42 pmI strongly agree with what you’ve mentioned on the part about the word hate being used too easily.
Let love replace all the hate. Hmmmmm.
i’m not quite there yet at social psy but yeah, i always wonder why ppl behave differently alone and in a group.
Comment by lixuan September 13, 2009 @ 3:46 pmwell anaylsed!
Comment by chailing September 13, 2009 @ 3:49 pmI totally agree with you. I see hatred and dislike all around me now as I try adapt in this new environment. Conflict arises due to the smallest thing like an action or a misinterpreted sentence. Is loving really so hard?
Comment by jas September 13, 2009 @ 3:53 pm“And exactly, how far will we go to push what we believe in onto others?”
Interesting video & article that you have written! I believe ur last sentence says a lot about what’s going on in the world. Based on how others are willing to create an impact in making a difference. Sadly, these “impacts” that have come around so far, are nothing but negativity (like 9/11). It’s amazing how negativity can affect nations & the world within a second. But positivity on the other hand takes eons and a longer process just to make 1 difference for a single person.
Comment by shadowcat September 13, 2009 @ 4:02 pmnicely done!
Comment by tzer September 13, 2009 @ 4:06 pmIf everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we’d see the day when nobody died
A detailed piece with an interesting perspective. If just more looked at issues of the world at this angle maybe things would be different.
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King.
Comment by Visa September 13, 2009 @ 4:30 pmIt’s quite true that lack of communication results in conflicts like the Iraqi War. Miscommunication and misconceptions by both sides, as well as outright refusal to communicate in order to push one’s agenda by force can be reasons for war.
At the same time, consider the following: throughout human history, there have been thousands of armed conflicts, but not all have escalated into full scale wars. The line between conflict and war is not as clear cut as military decisiveness, or saying that “I have way more weapons than you, so I’ll wrap this up quick.” The propogation of war is another area where miscommunication has had a profound effect.
In the Iraqi War, despite the UN’s public disapproval, there were still a significant percentage of Americans that felt that America was justified to initiate war. One reason was the Bush Administration was using Fox News to spread pro-war sentiments amongst the population by emphasizing on liberating Iraq, introducing democracy, and the POSSIBILITY of WMDs. It was only after a while, when international commisions looked into the cost and fruitlessness of the war, when more Americans started to oppose the war, including some Republicans. Miscommunication can start war, but an equally large danger is how it can prolong it.
Comment by Chander September 13, 2009 @ 5:43 pmVery interesting! your views on perception is very unique. u linked it with love and hate, and that is something that i have never thought of.
i think the behavior you mentioned about people behaving in according to society standards is very common. i believe the thinking is that we are just common folks, not world leaders, what can we do. If our leaders are doing nothing, we shouldn’t do anything either.
i don’t really like this thinking, but i cant help but to have this thinking too. the people with power to make a change is not doing anything, what can someone like me, without any power, do?
with great power comes great responsibility. i think it’s time for people with GREAT power to do something. like changing the social norm, making people realise that they – every single one of them, can do something.
Comment by Shuheng September 13, 2009 @ 7:35 pmElaine!
I definitelye agree with you on your stand that the Iraq war is a result of the lack of positive communications. While this may not be the sole reason for the war, the war could have been avoided if all parties involved were able to effectively communicate their wants/needs to each other so that they can reach some kind of common ground. I think most wars are a result of a breakdown in communication, be it between different religious groups, racials groups, or the government and the general public.
p.s. I thought you entry was vert well written! (:
Comment by Alicia Nicole September 14, 2009 @ 5:02 amhate a strong word that we often let slip in anger.
Iraqi War; a bad call by Bush.
if we took the time to actually understand each other views, wars wont happen.
Comment by dewi September 14, 2009 @ 5:17 amZEN!
Thats e word to descrbe ur entry lol. Instills deeper thinking in one, and makes one look towards simpler answers to the more complex qns in life.
Although I would like to fully agree with ur views on war, perhaps war has just a bit of good, with strong values of morality being instilled in humans in times of war. also it pulled e world out of the great depression. Yes as bad effects as it is, there is always some good.
So perhaps now we have gotta be more careful living in a democratic society. to decide properly on future issues, and taking a simpler answer to more complex questions in life so as to create less confusion and hatred and more peace.
Thats why i live on a farm
Comment by FarmerBen September 14, 2009 @ 1:56 pmPeace out!
Hello darling!
I feel that war is the result of the ego of the men on top.We civilians are stuck with the consequences of their decisions.Sadly,we have little or no power to overwrite them.I believe that if we want to,we can stop war this minute.Except I doubt any of these men would want to let go of their egos and compromise.
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Comment by feedmechocolate September 14, 2009 @ 2:59 pm