Does your hate compromise your ability to achieve happiness?

probably. How would I know?

Good answer.

I don’t think I hate anything or anyone. I have been disappointed, disgusted, befuddled, frustrated, and annoyed. I occasionally get angry. I do not hate.

Fear and self loathing get in the way of my happiness.

‘Hate’ is such an ugly word.

OK, occasionally I’ll make a withdrawal from my “Hate” account and spend it on somebody like…..say…..Timothy McVeigh, but that’s about it…....

I only hate mosqitos. It’s keeping me Indoors.

Mosquitoes always speak well of you, @RedDeerGuy1

(I’m just sayin’....)

@PullMyFinger Lol

My hate for what? If I really do hate something, I probably won’t interact with it at all so I doubt it’s compromising my happiness. I can’t think of a person I really do hate.

I hate tons of shit. And I fucking hate when people dance around the word hate. It is a valid feeling. I hate Donald Trump, I hate Nigel Farage , I hate onions. Hate is not a strong word, it is a accurate one.

I’ve decided that it’s my hatred of unhappiness that confines me to misery.

I’m going to add that I did hate my ex for a while back there. When we were in the early throes of our separation and divorce and arguing about his affairs and the child support that he refused to pay. I really did hate him for a time back then. And it did compromise my happiness. I felt bitter and twisted and angry with him. It was hard to move past. I don’t hate him now.

As to people like Trump and Farage, I don’t like them. Not at all. I dislike them intensely, but I can’t say I hate them. They don’t incite in me the feelings I had towards my ex when he kept hurting me and my children. I see hate as an extreme emotion. I see it as the opposite to strong, passionate love. And I do think if I allow such a strong, negative feeling to stay with me, it will hurt me.

I might say I hate anchovies or artichokes, but really, I just don’t like them.

Well. I could probably make a case for my pessimistic thinking keeping me down sometimes. But I’m usually right when I predict an outcome by assuming that the worst, most frustrating possibility will occur. So, it’s hard to change. Plus, I can’t understand hopelessly optimistic people.
I don’t consider myself a “Negative Nelly,” so much as a “Realistic Ricky.”...

There are plenty of things that I hate. But hate can also add to an experience. I hate Tom Brady. But, he makes the NFL more entertaining, because I have someone to root against. Like how a good villain can make a movie/book better.

Without hate, could there be love? The universe prefers balance….

I think it’s far too easy to criticize people who hate things. When I hear people doing that, I usually think the person isn’t too smart. The term ”ignorance is bliss” comes to mind. There are a lot of bad people, and bad occurrences in life. If you’re not seeing it, you’re not looking…

I would think that it would be most accurate to say people, and things I hate, are keeping me from happiness…. I don’t just hate stuff, for no reason.

I’d hate for anything to compromise my happiness, just as well nowt does then.

I don’t really have any hate/anger right now that is keeping me from being happy so not really.

I only hate the folks who are trying to kill me and people like me, and if they are successful in killing me, that will infringe on my ability to be happy much more than any hate I might be harboring. So I must do what I can to prevent that, and being angry is the only fuel that political activism can really run on, given how tiring it is, so I’m not planning on giving it up any time soon. Thanks for your concern though. ;)

Yes, it does. Anger and resentment are heavy burdens that do nothing to harm the subject, but do significant damage to the person carrying them.

“Hate” is an ugly word, and I do try to let go, free myself, and move forward. Doing so, however, can be more easily said than done.

I hate bigots and I’ve recently been called a bigot because I hate bigots, but I don’t let this hate bring me down or ruin my happiness because I cut these bigots out of my life.

I cut ties with an almost 40 year friendship because she couldn’t support my family in accepting our child is transgender. Love wins in my eyes. Not hate.

There’s very little that I hate, but there is some stuff, no doubt. When I saw that Palmyra had been destroyed, I didn’t feel sadness, I felt pure raw hatred. But I also tend to be the kind of person who doesn’t let hatred or anger linger. There are some things worth hating or worth getting angry about, and a lot that’s not. And for the stuff that it is worth hating, you can’t let it consume you. I don’t. And so for the most part I am happy, despite having some things I hate.

How about you, @josie? How about the things that you hate? It’s not just liberals hating Trump, you know.

For some reason I can’t help but feel the thread starter means this to lead somewhere…

^Yeah. It’s a spin on the thread that got deleted…

Not sure I saw that thread.

It wasn’t the question, but a couple of responses apparently must have touched enough of a nerve to get the thread moded… At least that’s my interpretation of what happened, given the wording in this threads question. It’s getting at the same point.

It’s essentially in response to the Barron Trump thread.

To clarify, I’m not speaking for @josie here.