Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Becoming.....?

How is it that two conflicting realities can occur in the same space and yet not cancel each other! confused don't be! Ever heard of the say that "we become like what we love". you are thinking true dat. A person who thinks God is some stern judge who is waiting to punish our every weakness, u find generally, will be as critical as criticism itself thinking for some reason that he is in fact representing God!
However another say which i have found to be true says "we become what we hate". here again we find that a boy with an abusive father who hurts his mother and the boy will grow to hate this thing and purpose not to be anything like his father! But like a complete fool you find that he batters his wife just like his father did his mother. And so came the saying like father like son!

some one i interested in the discussion on this subject said the reason for the later was that the person in that instance did not hate what they hated enough! That if the son, for example, should have hated what his father was much more and then he would have found himself not in the same box!

However in my view, that is after i thought on these two seemingly conflicting patterns which are simultaneously true but fail to cancel each other out, was that the truth is that these theories in fact support each other! tis is not drawn form the weak theory that there is a thin line between love and hate!

i think that we in fact we ultimately become what we love. a father loving his father ends up just like his father. Yes you may claim to hate what your daddy did and all your daddy was all bout but deep down inside you love the man who to you for the most part spells hero and all those words we attach to our daddies. same applying to mommy.

so what we become is indeed what we love, what we hate in it and what we love.