Behind the Mask
- Frances Lee
- May 20, 2015
- 1 min read
I don't want to hate anyone. I might dislike people because I disagree with certain points of view that they have but I never want to actually hate someone with a passion because frankly, I don't know them well enough to hate them. I don't have the right to hate anyone because I don't know what caused their respective perspectives or what affected their lives. How do I know that their behavior isn't a repercussion of past incidents or emotionally abusive relationships? How do I know? I don't. Simple as that.
For a while I thought that whatever I saw in people at school was what the reality was: I thought it was everything I could know about them because anything I didn't know would just surface gradually. But now I know that people are good at hiding, are good at masking their true emotions. I don't know what people might be going through in their lives or what they're trying to overcome from their past and for that reason I refuse to hate anyone or to actually sincerely judge people - I don't have enough information or credibility to.
I think we forget that each person has thousands of stories that molded them into the person they are today and that the aspect presented to us is only a small portion of their identity. It's so easy to forget but it's monumentally important to remember.
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