I saw several lists of loved/hated things. Some days ago I’d set myself the task of drawing up the same one, but I’m stuck with the second part. There are plenty of things I love. My playlist has songs in dozens languages and genres, I like to read about cultures of different nations and countries, and really dig dishes of Mexican, Japanese, American, Italian, and many other cuisines. Some things I love more, some things less, some things I’m not into, and some things I don’t like. But I can’t recall any thing I hate. Being hate-free means being reasonable, cause hatred is always emotional and therefore irrational. For e.g., if y’all hate sumthin’, just come to think of what’s the reason to hating it and, I’m sure, you won’t find any objective grounds for that.

But it’s only one thing that makes me feel uneasy- why it’s so much hatred around me? Especially since I live in such country as Russia, where everyone hates something. Perhaps, nowhere I’ve seen so much negative information as in Russian Internet. People hate other cultures, people hate other people, seems like people hate everything, without any rational reason. They hate something just because it is so, not cause it did somethin’ bad to ’em personally. And I just can’t get it. If I would be the same, it wasn’t big deal for me: you hate this, I hate that- we’re all haters of somethin’, ok. But I’m not like them and watching ’em, dreaming ’bout somethin’ like striking New York with nuclear bomb, laying on my shoulders like the weight of the world.

Some people may object that love is irrational too. I’d agree with it, but... Love to programming forces me to study it, lovely music supports me and keeps me in the right mood, and love to other cultures impels me to learn more about them and respect people of different nations, even when I don’t understand their habits. Love’s constructive and gives you somethin’ when hatred gives you nothing but self-abasement. Let’s love, not hate; and believe that good always wins over evil. Or at least more often than it seems.