The hate engine
The exhaust engine that is my heart runs best on hate and spite. The pureness of my desire to rise above individuals, groups of people, or whatever organization that I despise has always been my strongest motivator. The feeling of “I’ll show them!” while angrily shaking my fist at the sky. Or whatever. Koreans call this 독기.
I know it sounds like I’m experiencing chuunibyou syndrome, and I should have moved past this a long time ago, and I kind of did, but recently it’s been coming back. The more I get isolated, the more that I feel that I don’t ever fit in anywhere, and the feeling that I never will. It enveloped me in a miasma of hopelessness and depression. Then I realized I should just give up, and channel all that hateful energy into actually doing something with my time.
It works best when you have a specific object of hatred. In high school, for me, it was a classmate I had that was basically Ms. Perfect. Popular, academically great, good at sports, loved by teachers. I know it was immature, and I honestly didn’t even hate her that much, but whenever I needed motivation to get through a dark time, I hated her and it gave me the energy to push through. I guess it resulted in me going to a good university. But she got into Harvard LOL. So I never won I guess.
But now, who do I need to hate? In order to keep going? Maybe my younger brother? He has a lot of friends, has a girlfriend, things seem to be going pretty well for him. This is so stupid, HAHA I love my brother. But for now, I’ll just use him to become a better creative writer and programmer. Sorry broski, I don’t have any friends, and I have to make something of myself, right?
The only drawback of this is that, as I get older, the emotional toll gets bigger on me, and sometimes, my heart, LITERALLY, begins to hurt. I hope I die.