WHEN LOVE AND HATE COLLIDE

COMPARISON-CONTRAST

Annicalou Cruz Tañaquin

III- Ernest Rutherford

“There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love and hate, two things you can never mess around with, for these two can make your world startle. Many people do not understand the connection between them because there is hardly any visible similarity. Though, there are countless differences that we can relate, maybe because we often take those two as contradicting entities.

We never realized that love and hate are parallel, but they are. These two starts with one thing, your feelings toward somebody, you can not love or hate people just because of nothing. You need at least one factor that will attract or repel you. One good example is admiration, you develop this seeing the fact that you are captivated by his characteristics, attitude or for the simplest thing- he is just so crush-able. Same thing with detest, you do not despise anyone without any sanity, perhaps it is triggered by his face, manners or maybe he has done something wrong to you that made him hate-able. In addition to that, both convey strong emotions, and sometimes, they can be incontrollable.

In contrast, even if both deliver mighty sentiments. They execute them in an exactly different way. One can build a home and the other can break one. One can kill you of infatuation and the other of too much grudge. One can cause heart attack due to being big-hearted while the other due to being broken-hearted. In addition to that, these two are developed differently. Love is made with pure affection, a joyful feeling and is a romantic desire that can take you to the heavens, although the other is made with absolute animosity, a dreadful notion that can lead you to crushing someone with your very own fingers. Moreover, these two bring along different outcomes to our lives. Love teaches us acceptance when hate teaches pride. Love creates a better person out of you when hate makes you miserable. There are really a lot of factors to admit when it comes to the difference between two exact opposites.

To sum it all up, both love and hate have many similarities and differences between them. Both makes us feel extreme feelings that make our hearts burst, but they have their own way of doing it. Another thing is even if I’m experiencing it right now, I’m still puzzled to the fact that you can hate someone while still loving him. Two strong emotions in one, you’ll never know which one to follow. They are instructing you to do things against half of yourself. It feels awkward, but despite all of that, I still believe that these two controls everything, just like yin and yang. They maintain balance in our world, without them life would be uninspired. Love and hate creates a magical atmosphere that keeps us alive, now it’s your turn to comprehend and learn how to deal with them. ñ_ñ