You know, there's this verse in the Gita.

It's one of my favorite books that says something around,

take love and hate in the same light.

Take it in the same way.

And it's one of those teachings that sounds simple,

but the more I experience life and its deep polarities, it's like the more profound it becomes, you know. Love and hate, they seem like

opposites, right? Like one lifts you up. The other tears you down. One is warm. While the other is cold and hurt.

So of course, we're always going to be like, yeah, we want love, we want love, we want love.

One feels like expansion and the other feels like destruction.

But I think if we look closer, some of the love that we experience and hate come from a similar place of attachment.

Not all of it, but some of it, yes.

When we love something or someone deeply, I believe we often form an attachment to them.

We get used to how they make us feel, how they align with us, how they bring

us comfort or inspiration. Maybe they fill the void of loneliness that we feel. But what happens

when that person or thing no longer aligns with us, when they challenge us, when they disappoint us?

The same attachment that once made

us feel love, yeah, that can turn into bitterness or hate like real quick. The person who loves you

today, truth is they can hate you tomorrow. And I'm sure you've experienced this. The person who hates you today,

they might love you in the future. You may have had some haters in the past, some haters in

high school that turned out to be some of your biggest friends. It happens. Neither is as permanent

as they seem.

Both are fleeting, shifting with perception, with experience, with expectation.

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