It's here in the smallest bones... the feet and the inner ear. Such an enormous thing. To walk. To listen.

Every day we see love turn into hate.
Every day, millions of people utter foul words to one another, do foul things.
Is it because the ones we love, it is so easy to turn against?
The ones that are close to us, it is so simple a task to say or do the thing we know in our heart of hearts is the one thing that would kill us inside, we do it to them instead. They give us trust and make it easy. Easy to take our weaknesses and breed them in others. It's dark and real. It's evil, it's pain.
It's not a universal law to be kind for others' sake. It's a universal law to be kind for ourselves. Grudges, anger, greed, envy. They eat us up inside, more than what we do to others.
It takes our power, our happiness, our connection.
We make the same mistakes, we hide behind walls.
I make the same mistakes. I hide behind walls.

Is there a way to make it... the other way around? Can we, even in minute instances, take hate and turn it to love? Love is freeing. It sounds like hippie bullshit.
But is it so much as laughing, at someone who curses us? Is it so much as dropping a coin in a cup held by a dirty hand? Is it so much as complimenting those who despise us? Smiling in an uncomfortable situation? Is it such a small thing, as listening? Owning blame? Forgiving? Forgiveness? Is that the basis of love? Saying, thinking, being... forgiveness? Releasing others, loving, that releases ourselves. Forgiveness is freedom, freedom is love, love is God. So by that proxy... it seems so simple yet we get caught up in bullshit, drama, pain, anger, envy, grudges. It's so easy to be free. It's so easy to be near God. It's not something you necessarily need to think about. It's not something you need to struggle or fight for. It's something that starts at the bottom up. It's something that starts in the small things.
Smiling, laughing.
Giving.
Forgetting.
Forgiving.
Loving.