"I don't know why, but I'm supposed to be mad...."

I have to keep myself from reading about Maynmar and what is happening to the people, since the cyclone. With the estimate death toll and more to come from what the cyclone left behind; I find myself upset that the ones that be don't move forward.

Which got me thinking does hate truly exist?

Is it possible to hate someone so much, that you have never met, that you would let them suffer and die? In fact, I have a couple people (I know I shouldn't) that frankly, I despise in my real world, but I would hope I would not let my feelings determine my position, if they were in need.

Now, this is totally outside of a massive event, that creates hate - like murder or something terrible.

Do the people of Maynmar know that we don't hate them? Do they know that we want to help? Do they know that we care? Or do they think we are like their overseer's full of uncontrollable hate. Do they not know that whatever our differences it doesn't matter, when it comes to life and death?

When I was younger and maybe it is still the same today, a friend said to me - "I don't know why, but if you call me a Puerto Rican or a Cuban, I'm supposed to be mad." She's a Mexican. I remember being puzzled by this and asking others if this was the case. I even went so much as to ask our other friends that were Puerto Rican and Cuban if this was the same for them. I was shocked that they all were taught the same thing.

The most powerful lessons seemed to be taught by the Puerto Ricans and Mexicans - I learned never to assume when asking a nationality.

My friends and I were so young, that we thought we would fix this thing of hate, by not getting mad if someone said we were a different nationality. Of course, I didn't feel the twinge that had been erected in them. It didn't bother me if some one asked if I was Russian.

Which makes me wonder - this whole thing. Do we really truly hate people? Or are we told and taught we do?

A face to face encounter could change the whole thing, as in most pre-set judgments. We all have them until we take the time to meet one on one. Then magically, these things slide away - at least for the one that we are talking too.

Have the governments made us (all the people of the world) hate each other, for no good reason? So much that these people are being written off. What kind of government would allow the people to die like this, out of pride? Please hate us all you want, but help your people or else you will only be governing over yourself.

How do we the people of the world - take back our feelings and be as one?

Maynmar and people of the world - I don't hate you. Never have.