The capacity to love reaches infinitely higher.
Our capacities to love and hate are not equal. Our capacity to love far excels our capacity to hate. When we look around or watch the news all we see is a world filled with hatred. People hating other people simply because they’re different from themselves - their skin color, their religion/beliefs, their politics, their rituals, their language, their dress… the list goes on and on. Sometimes we hate people simply because they hate other people (I hate haters). Our hatred can become so intense that we’ll actually kill other people simply because they don’t act or conform the way we think they should. It’s no wonder we think that our capacity for hatred is boundless.
Yet when things seem to be as dark as they can get, love shines forth. Natural disasters (earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and so forth) wars, school shootings, accidents (car, bus, train, and such) - while these are all horrendous, they show our infinite capacity to love. When these tragedies happen, people step forward to help, crossing the barriers of hate. {I’m not simply talking about those whose job it is to render assistance, but your everyday Joe or Josephine.} They don’t see differences (race, religion, gender); they only see another human being who needs the help they can give. If that “help” is pulling them from burning wreckage, helping them locate a missing friend or loved one, or is simply holding their hand as they pass away; giving them the comfort that at least someone was there. When we see these things, we’ll call them “acts of heroism”, but many times they happen unnoticed. That’s because people don’t wait around until a TV camera shows up before they act; they just do it. People helping other people - not because they have to, but rather out of concern for the other person’s wellbeing … even at the cost of their own (love).
Our capacity to hate is deep, but time and time again we’ve shown that our capacity to love is infinitely higher.
Shuhak 