Friday, July 1, 2011

Make Joy, Not Hate

Hate:
-noun
1. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.

2. the object of extreme aversion or hostility.



Joy:
–noun
1. the emotion of great delight or happiness caused bysomething exceptionally good or satisfying; keen         pleasure;elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son's success.

2. a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something orsomeone greatly valued or appreciated: Her prose style is a pure joy.

3. the expression or display of glad feeling; festive gaiety.


I would much rather make joy than hate, and I think that the world would be a much better place if more people did so. I make an effort every day to spread laughter and smiles wherever I go. I'm not perfect, by any means, and sometimes I can be negative, when I'm emotional.

I never expected to come across the phrase "make hate". The concept is so ugly it disgusts me to my core. I wish I had never been confronted with it, to tell you the truth. This assault to my senses happened on Facebook. The phrase was on a T-shirt:


The guy wearing it was a friend of a friend. He commented on one of my friend's status updates, and I saw he was wearing it in his profile picture. I really couldn't believe anybody would wear something with such a negative statement on it. Who wants to Make Hate? In my opinion, a jackass... I vented some frustration at the situation in Photoshop and came up with this:



That is the actual picture of the guy, I just made his appearance a little more literal. Why would this person want to represent themselves like this? It seems to me to be shallow and contrived, like the guy was trying to seem like a bad-ass, but it doesn't come across to me that way. I see an insecure, hollow person who is trying to impress the wrong sorts of people. Everybody I showed this picture to was unimpressed with his style. They didn't understand why someone would want to spread the concept of "making hate" around. Even though they are just words printed on a shirt, they carry power, and a certain energy of their own. It worked on me, I now hate this guy. He is certainly isn't someone I would care to be around for any length of time. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why would you want people to hate you?

I understand that we have freedom of speech, and trust me, I am not asking for this shirt to be banned. I am just trying to say that I am upset that there is a person out there who would BUY the shirt, WEAR the shirt, have a picture TAKEN of them wearing the shirt, AND set the picture as their FACEBOOK PROFILE PICTURE. I am upset that this guy and I have a common friend. I don't think a good person would  present themselves that way. It's probably a good thing that the shirt exists. That way we know, when we see someone wearing it as proudly as this guy is, that that person is probably not worth knowing.

For all my ranting, I know there isn't much I can do about it, except avoid those types of people, and try to be a better person myself. I hope it inspires you to spread more joy around, and less hate, like it has me. I looked on the internet for a shirt that said "Make Joy", with no success. I can order one, I'm sure. In the meantime, I went on Photoshop again and came up with this:

It will be mine, and I will wear it proudly. Anybody else want one?

~Foxy

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