in a way, that was my point.
i wrote this article in response to a comment made on a poem a wrote and posted recently. the response came from an old, old girlfriend, out of the blue. i believe she probably googled me and ran into this piece of writing. . .some of which she had seen before. her comment was somewhat terse, and I considered how much resentment stored up inside her had cost her over the years since i left.
but then i rethought, and received some follow-up messages from her, and realized that not only is hate an easy emotion to fall into, it is an easy one to pin on another person. it's that rush of self-righteousness that hits us at different moments. . .an emotion that doesn't always come from hate, but often does, too. when you figure out what is happening to you, the hate can be an epiphany. you can remember things. you can get in other people's shoes.
TBT
