Prejudice

How does it really come to be? What could make someone hate someone else just because of the way they look? It can become who you are. Your lifestyle. Something so evil can take over entire communities. So much pain can come from it. Not just physical but emotional. And it not only hurts the victim but the antagonizer as well. They just don't notive it because they take it out on others.

It all has to come from a single seed, planted by either your environment or an incident. Or both. Something that makes you look at it as a normal thing. You can be taught it by an important individual in your life at a young age where your morals are still molding. You learn to associate the greatness from that individual with this prejudice, so it becomes normal for you. It's like it isn't even wrong. But, you can still grow out of it because the pain you inflict on them will still get through. No, you must feel this pain yourself. You must feel something like it so you think it, too, is normal.

From this, you become delusional. You begin to look for reason in this madness. You find logic in the evil you think, say, and do. And the seed just continues to grow. You don't notice the true pain welling up inside of yourself because you're always using it. It's like you're swimming and you don't really have the sensation of being wet because you're in the water. You don't know the difference. That is what true pain is. Makes me wanna cry.

It takes something strong to get you out of that. You must have a life affirming change to come out of something like that. Something to bring you out of the water, feel that harsh cold air against your bare skin. That would wake you up to the true pain inside of yourself. The pain you took out on others.

Let us stop it at the source. Don't immerse yourself in lies, thinking that hating someone just because of the way they look is right. Think about what it was like when you were younger. Everyone was just a person. You were in kindergarten. You played with anyone and 5 minutes later, they were your best friend no matter what they looked like. The pain of the world hadn't yet come to you. Let us go back to that. Deal with your pain when it comes. Embrace it. Learn from it. In the end, it saves your life.