hate.

We've all done it. Don't try to act like you haven't, because you know you have whether you did it unconsciously or if it's on your to do list for the day. I often wondered why, but I've came up with several reasons:

Jealousy: You hate because you're jealous. You have to find flaws with someone or something that they own because you don't have it, or you CAN't have it. Perfect example of this: My friend has the black iPhone 3GS and she happens to brag about it whenever she can (smh, anyway). So we were on the train and this girl gets on and she too had the iPhone 3Gs but hers was white. I remember thinking oh that iPhone looks tough. First thing out my friends mouth, "oh she needs to put a case on that cuz if it falls she gonna be mad. and if somebody wanna steal it al they gotta do is snatch it out her hand." I was like "oh." I felt the hate when those words left her mouth and it upset me because I should have said something.

Not satisfied: People hate and find ways to sabotage others happiness in order to create an illusion in their head that their life is better. I knew a girl like that. She was so jealous of me and what I had that she often tried to make me look like someone I wasn't.

If there's anything I learned from the recent events in Haiti, be thankful for what you have because in a heartbeat, you can lose everything.