And Then You Loved Me by Cooper Inglath

Author:Cooper, Inglath
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC
Published: 2014-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

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A Single Seed

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

– Mother Teresa

Now

As a young person, I’m not sure I ever thought about prejudice. We studied it in school, of course. History classes about our country’s time period of slavery, and then later on, segregation between blacks and whites. And, too, its reach to other parts of the world where men like Adolph Hitler killed millions of Jewish people because they were thought to be inferior.

I remember wondering in those history classes how hatred could get so big and out of control. How it could lead to such acts of horror. That there must have been some enormous instigating factor to justify turning a person’s life into a nightmare. It seemed unbelievable to me, almost like someone must have exaggerated the eventual outcome, that people couldn’t have been as evil as history recorded them to be.

And if they had been, how did they get that way?

The answer is still hard for me to accept. But I know it’s true. I’ve seen with my own eyes the tragedy that can result from a single seed of hate. That’s all it takes, really, just one. It’s easy to miss at first, a seemingly benign judgmental word, resentment, jealousy. In the same way that the wind blows spores of a dandelion across a green yard, and they begin to pop up everywhere, the same is true of hatred, the seeds multiplying one by one until the landscape it has fallen upon is forever changed.

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