Something I learned in one of my classes today and it's too good not to share:
Hate and love are two sides of the same coin. When you love somebody, your thoughts and emotions are heavily invested in them. Similarly, when you hate somebody, all you could think of is their name - sometimes you even repeat it in your mind like a mantra or a prayer to God. Even if you meet that somebody at a party, you'd be paying a lot of attention to and wasting mental effort on them, like noting where they are and checking whether they wear the same shirt as you. In both cases of love and hate, you care enough about that person to let them inhabit your mind.
Can hatred turn into love? Well, obviously there was a logical reason for you to hate somebody in the first place. When you remove that reason to hate, a gap is created. You have the 'leftover' hormones and a huge hole, but you're unable to make sense of this. So you'd probably think that you love that person you used to hate.
You know the best way to get back at somebody? Not with hate, because that suggests that you care so much about them that you let them into your head. Be indifferent to them. The next time you meet that somebody who irritated you, like your ex, don't respond to their threats, taunts and snide comments. See what an effect you will produce, simply by denying them the pleasure of getting a rise out of you. Essentially, you're telling them: "I don't give a damn about you. You're not worth my time to hate you. You're beneath my hate."
We are born with the ability to hate, but the key issue here is how far we want to go with hating someone or something, or not at all.
