“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 people will cross your lines; some will 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.
Which means not hating is one too. “Why harbor negative feelings when you can cherish positive ones? Why choose to hate someone when you can love life and live?”
The mechanism is attention. Whatever your mind is focused on creates your feelings, negative or positive. Choosing to enjoy life instead of cataloguing offences isn’t naivety — he calls it maturity: knowing there are more important things to point your mind at.
AI-composed from Innocent's text, reviewed and refined by Innocent.
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