A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 9
“Why harbor negative feelings when you can cherish positive ones? Why choose to hate someone when you can love life and live?”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 9
The walk-through
Reasons to hate people exist, and you will find them if you look. Some will cross your lines or demean you; some will simply do things better than you and stir envy. Innocent starts from that honest place — given enough time, he could hate everyone in his life — and then names the hinge: “To hate is a choice you make.”
Which means not hating is a choice as well. The mechanism is attention: what your mind is focused on creates feelings, negative or positive. Dwell on the injuries and that is what you will feel.
He doesn’t call the alternative naivety. “Choosing not to hate someone, but just enjoy life instead signifies maturity.” There are more important and positive things to point a mind at than a tally of who wronged you.
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