First of all, keeping up with a blog is damn near impossible. I have been meaning to write something or other all month and just did not get around to it. Oh well, probably no one cares anyways!
Anywho, where's the love? Like for real where the hell is it? In the last few weeks there have been so many things that have caused me to ask this question and finally I decided maybe I should put my two cents in. In the midst of conversations based around sequesters and the debate over marriage equality, fights over who should be on googles homepage, and even puxatowney phils failed attempt at predicting if spring was coming early; my facebook news feed has been littered with hate one way or another. Either you hate Obama for not stopping the sequester, or you hate the people who made it happen. Either you hate the gay people in the world, or you hate the people throwing their bible in your face. In today's news, you either hate Google for not putting a picture of Jesus on the cross instead of celebrating Cesar Chavez's life or you hate the people complaining about it. Either you hate punxsutawney phil for saying spring was coming, or you hate the weatherman for inaccurately predicting snowfall. So again I say, where's the love?
Some of these issues are more trivial than others (I don't think the memes directed toward killing punxsutawney phil are at quite the same level as the people who hate you for supporting gay marriage) but hate is hate all the same. I don't consider myself to be a very religious person so I won't sit here and say that we should love thy neighbor as they self and you shouldeth doith it-ith. But what I will say is what good does hate do? Does posting that link about how making your profile picture an equals sign is stupid really make you feel better? Does buying into the garbage on the news about Obama and the sequester (and really anything else political) and then ranting about it on twitter really make your day a little brighter? Does forcing your religious opinion of gay marriage on others make you feel like you are doing your part to spread the word of God?
I don't really follow politics, and I don't really go to church anymore. That doesn't mean I know nothing, and it certainly doesn't mean I know everything. But what I do know is that with everything going on in the world today, there isn't any room for more negativity, more judgement, and more hate. Sure everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that's what social media is for, but next time you post a status, share a link, or make a hashtag, take a second to remove the hate from whatever it is your saying. Let's restore some faith in humanity, lets treat each other with respect, lets spread some freakin love people.
