Hate ?

People talk about Love all the time. They talk about its ups, its downs, its benefits and its drawbacks. They talk about it too much that they have forgotten about its opposite, Hate.
What's Hate? Is it simply the opposite of Love? Is it just the lack of concern? Or is it the desire to harm the other? 
I don't know what's Hate, neither do you. However, it's this feeling we get when someone we used to love hurts us, when an enemy traps us, when someone rips our belongings away, and when life turns its back on us. I have just described four different situations, with four different feelings. In other words, Hate is not one precise and perfectly defined feeling. On the opposite, Hate is a range of feelings; as Love is. Hate covers jealousy, tiresome, depression, astonishment, weakness, disappointment and anger. 
However, I must point out that Hate is different from revenge. Hate is peaceful; revenge isn't. to seek revenge is to look for a way to harm others. But to feel Hate is to simply express one's disappointment and anger via a feeling. This feeling hurts you, but never hurts the other. The prejudice of considering Hate a bad deed is weird, since Hate is uncontrollable. You don't choose whom to hate, just as you don't choose whom to love. You just hate, and you just love. 
On the other hand, revenge is a matter of choice and the motive of one's actions. Thus, Revenge is a long process during which Hate turns into selfishness, pride and egocentrism. The engine of revenge has then nothing to do with hate, but everything to do with narcissism. How to keep one's image intact and strong is what fuels a person's seek of revenge. 
Differentiate revenge from hate, revenge starts wars while hate is peaceful. Hate affects the hater, while revenge directly damages the other. 
Hence, do not pretend not to hate because it's as impossible as never to love. However, you can argue that you have never sought revenge as not everyone has this narcissist perspective. 
HATE BUT DO NOT REVENGE.

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