Unrequited

Last night I was told by some guy that I had unrequited love. That my inability to hate him for what he did made me immature and that I should learn to hate people and stop loving people.

My reaction: "WHAT???"

I do have a hard time hating people. You can hurt me over and over and I'll forgive you every time because I can't "hate" anybody. I can dislike you greatly, but I will never hate you.

I'm a people's person too. I love people, and I love being around people (most of the time). I've learned to love a lot of different kind of people. You love your teammates, you love your youth group, you love your best friends, you love your family. There are different types of love, and I have learned to love numerous different people. It takes time to earn that kind of love, but the fact is, I will love everybody in their own way.

I don't hate people. That's not who I am.

Jesus called us to love everybody. That's what I am trying to do, love everybody. Love those who are rude and abnoxious, love those who get on my nerves EVERY night at swim practice, love the people in my elective on-level classes who are immature. Love everybody. Jesus called us to love everybody, and that's all I was trying to do. I don't care if you love me back, I don't care if you're rude to me back, I'm still going to try to love you.

So if that classifies as "unrequited" love, the fine, so-be-it. If in my attempts to be who Jesus wants us to be makes my tried love for others "unrequited" then fine. I'm doing my best and if you can't accept that, that's not my problem.

I'm going to go on loving others just as Jesus called us to love. Because in the end, some guy who wants to get a reaction out of me won't matter in the end. He just fueled my fire to try and be the best person I can be.