Hate

"To dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward"

That is the definition of the word, "hate". I felt the need to start this post with that particular definition because of what this post is basically going to be about: hate. Hate, and how a word like that can so commonly be used within the modern world today.

In case you haven't realized, society is stupid. Society is elusively ignorant and oblivious. And one of the things that most irritates me is how the word "hate" is so often thrown around in everyday sentences and statements. Because, as I have previously noted, society is STUPID. People every single day say, "I hate this, I hate that, I hate you, and her, and him." "I hate my life, I hate my family, I hate everything," blah blah blah. But there's one phrase that is SO commonly used, I want to yell at everyone who uses it:

"Don't hate!"

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"Hate" is not being rude to someone. "Hate" is not pointing out the obvious because no one else thought of it. "Hate" is not disagreeing with someone. "Hate" is not having an opinion.

Hate is to strongly and completely and utterly dislike something, to the point where you would do almost anything to get rid of it. I can't very well describe hate, because well, it's HATE. The word was created because there's no way to properly explain how much you detest or abhor something. There really is no equivalent word to the word hate, because it's more than a word you use to describe something. It's a feeling. A feeling that doesn't come around often at all, but for some idiotic reason, people decide to use that word to describe everything.

Posting a comment saying something's stupid, you're "hating".

Explaining how that person wasn't the first one to like something, it's "hating".

Tell someone you don't agree with what they think, you're "hating".

Post a blog about your opinions on society's use of the word "hate", and I'm "hating".

I'm not telling you not to hate anything. Some people honestly (and using the correct definition of it) say not to ever hate anything at all. I'm saying that you can. You're human. Just, don't say you "hate" something when you're mad, or angry, or upset, or annoyed. Really feel it. Really mean it. Make up your mind 100%. Know there's no other possible feeling you could ever have towards it. Then you hate.

So please, don't go throwing it around. It's not a ball, and we're not playing a game of catch. It's more than a word. It's an emotion.