Hatred is a negative energy. It is an energy that can drain you both physically and mentally. Hatred is an emotion that can overwhelm us to the extent where we can think of nothing else but hurting the other person. Hatred can not only destroy the person it is aimed at, but it can also destroy the ‘carrier’ too.

When one carries hatred within his or her heart, nothing else matters - other than the object of their hatred. Life, it seems, comes to a grinding halt. This is because hatred is such a powerful emotion that a person cannot move forward within their lives, until the hatred is resolved. And the only way hatred can be resolved is when either the object of the hatred is destroyed or, indeed, the person carrying the hatred is destroyed.

However, having said that, hatred can be overcome by understanding and communication. Communication holds the key to many personal problems, not to mention the world’s problems. When we communicate we begin to understand each other, and come to a ‘common ground’. Hatred is then eased and overtime, will become no more because there is an ‘understanding’ between people. But when one is consumed with a burning desire to destroy and annihilate every part of that person their hatred is aimed toward, then the hatred will continue to fester and grow. 

Furthermore, hatred will continue to destroy the one who carries it too. Hatred is such a powerful and emotive feeling that it is passed down from generation to generation. This continues to be case, until the original reason as to why it began in the first place becomes lost in the annals of time.

Because when one is consumed by a hatred so strong and powerful, then life is put on ‘hold’ or ‘paused’. Wasted energy is spent on hating, when it should be spent on ‘living’. And in fact, living stops altogether. Hatred is such a powerful emotion that it can consume you completely. A person can become blinded by hatred - to the detriment of everything else - and to the extent that nothing else matters but the subject of their hatred. Hatred eats you up, consumes you and stops you from thinking logically - creating illogical thoughts instead. It destroys you within, because it feeds off your anger. Hatred can bring forth other feelings, feelings of anger, and jealousy too. These too are powerful motivators for the hatred you may carry within you.

Of course there are some people who have perfectly legitimate reasons to hate. If a murder takes place in which the victim is a mother, father, child, or any other member of a family, then the hatred of the surviving members of that family can be carried within them for years. Hatred is a force that can be seen and felt and its affect is both physical and mental.

It is like a destructive and powerful tidal wave that can consume families, society and the whole world. It destroys, and annihilates all it touches. And it leaves nothing but destruction and devastation in its wake. The legacy of this of course, is yet more hatred that is passed down from father to son, mother to daughter. Indeed, it can become a ‘cycle of hate’.

It destroys all that it touches, as described above - both the carrier of the hatred and those the hatred is aimed toward. In fact each can be seen as victims in this case. Hatred can stop you from living a normal, healthy life. Life becomes wasted as opportunities to move on are ignored.

Hatred leaves a legacy of hatred, and this is then continued on and ever on. It is all-consuming, swallowing up the last vestiges of humanity we may still have. It can become illogical and stops all reasonable thought in its tracks. Hatred destroys from within, chews you up and leaves nothing but unloving, unfeeling shells of what was once, human beings.