The Real Me Is Truth and Love

The thin line that exist between love and hate is for me the very definition of life itself.  We all have empty spaces inside of us that need to be filled in order to keep us moving, keep us breathing, keep us alive.  It is your personal choice, what you fill your space up with, most of us choose or want to choose love.  Does life exist without love?  Of course it does, we see that everyday in this world we live in, but love gives meaning to life, gives you a reason to keep charging your batteries.
   The duality of nature is found even in our human emotions, we cannot define love without its equal and opposite, which is hate.  If you have within you the capacity to love, then hate resides in the dark corners of your heart, even if the fire is almost out, you can always find one glowing ember.  The higher you rise in love the greater the fall into hate, that is why the broken hearted have a harder time opening their heart the second or third time around.  The heart  that had experienced the euphoria of love, that was so light it floated like a cloud in the atmosphere, has now been painfully broken.  That first taste of hate can take the heart to dark places from which it is hard to return unscathed.
   Most of us both love and hate the person we call our mate.  We love being in love and all those happy feelings that come from knowing you are loved but we hate our partners because they can hurt us if they choose to withdraw their love.  We hate feeling vulnerable, so we project that hostility towards our partner, like it is their own fault.  In other words, we hate the people we love because we have opened our hearts to them and in doing so, we have opened ourselves up to the possibility of pain.
   Most of us are cowards, so we choose to love with hate so we can protect our fragile hearts.  My daily challenge to myself is to love without fear. If I love without fear, then I keep the hate where it belongs buried deep within my psyche in a place I rarely visit.  I Love my Partner more everyday because I don't fear losing him.  I don't fear losing him because I no longer fear the end, if necessary my heart will heal and renew over and over again.