Quote Originally Posted by Saheli View Post
Hate is an angry destruction that can manifest outwardly or inwardly, although in my opinion both are usually present. I do not believe that one can hate something or someone without self-inflicted damage. Hate paves the way for lonely desolation. I think ian said it best when he wrote, "after hate there is nothing" Overcoming hate is the only way to defeat it...it is a void which must be filled with forgiveness in order to be overcome. Only then can a person avoid the self-destruction hate is so quick to inflict. To do this, of course, can take many years, and sometimes it cannot ever be completely done. We are all left to do the best we can with what we have: hopefully, though, a time will come when we are able to fill in the void of hate with forgiveness and walk over it to better times in our lives. Otherwise, the hole will suck up many things we might never know we missed.

In an adjective, if I had to pick one, hate is: corrosive.
I agree. As a rape victim the only way that I could move on was to forgive him. I went to seem him in jail and forgave him not for his own benefit, but for mine. I had to let go of the hate so I could move on, otherwise the hate would take over my life and would consume me. I wasn't going to be that person.

I have found that hate much like love is an action and emotion of passion. The true opposite of love is indifference, when you no longer care what happens to them.