June 30, 2005

I hate everything, well no I mean I hate nothing...

So the other day I was talking to someone and they said they hated something, and I was thinking "why?", that does not sound sooooo bad. Then it hit me he did not hate the thing, he hated being told he had to do the thing. And then it dawned on me I don't really hate as much stuff I thought, what I hate is the "having to" part. I hate having to do just about anything. Your mom says you have to clean your room, "What! No way!", but if you are just sitting in that dung heap of a room you might say "Damn this place is depressing, I think I'll clean it up." Take anything you actually like to do, no love but like, and then have some authority figure tell you you have to do it, and wham! you hate it. It's that simple. If you force me to do it when I am not ready to or not in the mood for it, I hate it.

Damn that makes so many things soooo much easier to understand.