Friday, September 26, 2008

Love and Hate

If Love and Hate are opposites, is it possible to feel and experience one without the other? I like to think I have loved but not to have hated. On things I intensely dislike, I prefer not to sink into out and out hatred, but with love, one would wish occasionally to feel it so intensely that it hurts and thrills all at once.

I can't bring myself to feel real hatred but neither have I experienced intense love, except for odd moments when nursing my baby. Neither emotion can be sustained at its most intense level, it would be too much to bear. Perhaps I'm not alone in feeling fairly neutral most of the time and having waves of intense emotion from time to time.

That' probably the way it's meant to be.