Lessons...

Recently I've found myself just a little addicted to StumbleUpon, for those of you who have no idea what the heck I'm talking about its a web site where you provide some idea as to what you are interested in, and are then able to stumble your way through various web sites that you may find interesting. The range is massive, from single photos to full websites to videos through to blogs.

I found myself at a blog where I read one line. I nodded thought it was a really good point and then moved on without really giving it much more thought. The line is really simple and unfortunately I cannot reference the owner of the thought as I don't have their name anymore;

"We are born to love, but we are taught to hate"

I don't think there is a single line of wisdom that has seemed more true! When a child is born, there is nothing in the world but the air they breathe and the love of the parents that it is born too. Over time however, that child is exposed to the world.

The world. What a place that is.

We comment a lot about how children these days are taught incredible violence and terror through video games and tv shows. My question is have you seen the news recently? Take today for instance, headlines include "Tourist charged with Subiaco murder", "Man critical after suspected drug lab explosion", "Several injusred in Perth night of violence", "Police cars ablaze in London riot" and thats just 4. How can we possibly expect anyone to be completely void of any form of hatred in their life.

Whether it is some form of hatred toward terrorists, something that we are definately encouraged towards in this day and age...

Hatred towards someone who has done the wrong thing...

It really isn't that far of a stretch to get to hatred towards someone that doesn't necessarily share our opinion.

The question is, how much do we encourage others towards this kind of hatred? How much do we encoursge this kind of hatred in our own interaction with society at large? Are we living as we were born to? Or taught to?

Perhaps every now and again we just need to be reminded that we are indeed born to love, and only taught to hate.

Kazzi