Free Writing: Haters All Around
By Urban Thought on October 19, 2007 @ 12:30 am
Here I have my second attempt at ‘Free Writing.’ Still trying to break the habit of making corrections. I caught myself backspacing twice (still can’t get past the punctuation part though – so it isn’t exactly free). But this is how it works as mentioned on Greg’s Writing Blog:
The rule is simple (see details): Get a timer and set it for 10 minutes. Focus on the keyword and write until the timer goes off. Stop. Don’t worry about grammar, punctuation, or spelling, just write. Anything. Post your results in the comments or on your own blog if you are up to it. Topic: Haters
They say the freaks come out at night. That may be true but the haters are out all the time. It’s a wonder what happens when you become successful as an individual. People phrase you and give you a pat on the back all the time want to actually stick a knife in it. As if your success will prevent them from moving on up like the Jefferson’s. It isn’t like you are giving them a hateful glare or keeping them down. Just the thought of someone doing better than them hurts there heart. But you cannot think of haters as a bad thing. Like good and evil loves and haters go hand in hand. I consider haters to be fans. Yes, fans. Those people who adore us and spend time loving us. Appreciating what we do and don’t do. Enjoying the moments that we are doing big things and wonder where we are when we decide to disappear. So yes, haters are fans. Fans that have hate in their heart. More to the point, fans that have jealousy envy and a touch of insecurity tied into one. Yes, haters are a combination of all those things. But as a person we have to understand that we need haters. Just like good and evil, church and state, citizens vs. the government; haters are necessary. Haters are the motivators that cause us to be greater than our selves. What better way to piss someone off but to be greater than you currently are. They will look down on you and despise you and want the worst for you. If the hater took time out to realize that all that evil they have inside of them is what is really holding them from doing, being the success they want to become then they will do what needs to be done to become bigger than their current self. Like that dude over there in the corner office. Yeah, he is a hater. He makes more money than me. He has a house, a family and a car. But you cannot tell me that he has love for me. Cause he has hate for me. He spends his time clocking me and trying to discredit me. And for what? No reason, I’m no threat to him. But he doesn’t know that. No, not at all. He hates the person I am because I can move on and move up and move forward without looking back. So what do I do to make him even more upset? Continue to be me. Be me but be better the next time I see him. Because the only way to combat a hater is being the success they don’t want you to become. Live your life to the fullest and why not take someone else with you. That would really piss them off. You being great and making someone else great as well. Because as hate can feed off of hate showing love can feed off of love. So I would rather be a lover than a hater. Love you for who you are and not think twice about that which you used to be. Because through love will life be more fulfilling. Hate is just too much to carry on your shoulders. Leave that at the door or on the corner. But don’t bring hate over here. No, not here.
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I don’t know if you’re a fan of Star Wars. Wasn’t growing up but there are lessons in the force. Haters are like the Dark Side. Without Haters like Anakin Skywalker/ Darth Vader there is no Jedi. We need haters to balance our worth…bring balance to the force.
You’re right. I look at it like Ying/Yang. What is one without the other?
I’m a fan to no one. But I can appreciate Star Wars like any other great piece of art or entertainment.
I am in heavy agreeance to this right here! You cannot have one without the other and I simply chose to stay on the side of love. I say let the hater’s motivate you. U just have to know that it’s fuel for your fire to be great! These people simply have no clue that they can achieve greatness to if they’d only congratulate as opposed to discredit others every chance they get. One cannot wish to be happy if they cannot see another person happy and be happy for them. Excellent post! I really enjoyed reading this!p>
Wow! Great flow with free writing! I wish that we didn’t need haters and I hope that someday we might acknowledge the hate instead of expressing it and use our “shadow side” to show us how to make the light inside ourselves brighter.
I’ve read that when we don’t acknowledge and accept the “bad” in ourselves (envy, hate, jealousy, anger) we aren’t accepting ourselves unconditionally. If we don’t accept our entire self, how can we accept anyone else?
I’ve always heard that what we don’t like in someone else is really what we don’t like in ourselves. Arrggggh!
Sometimes it isn’t obvious but I’ve discovered this to be true time and time again. I know you know I read a lot and another thing I’ve read is that when you don’t like someone, change yourself and the other person will change. Also true.
I once found someone incredibly irritating. I fixated on all his irritating habits. Then I found out I had to work with him. I could either choose to be irritated all the time or I could change. I changed and began to notice all the good in him and he really is good. What I had found irritating is now endearing.
I know you’re in agreement with this quote, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
If I want a world of love, I must be love.
Dan-Sean Mankind: Haters are a necessary Evil. What can I say? You know they are all around us. We don’t like them but they seem to like us. And… Thank you.
Ms. Q: I know what you mean when you talk about that irritating individual. I have someone in the office similar to that. We ended up traveling to the same destination and I approached him differently. He isn’t as bad as I thought he was. Still annoying but that has more to do with me than him.