Wednesday, November 9, 2011

You don't make 500 million friends without making a few enemies

Well, in truth, nobody ever have 500 million friends. It would already be very impressive to know 500 million people. However, that is a trivial matter of this saying. The essence of this claim is that if you want to have friends, you are bound to have enemies. It is simply unavoidable. As stated in my last blog entry, the only attempt to evade contemptuous encouragement of enemies is to stay neutral on events, in which case, you will lose your friends. Thus, you have to take a stand. However, there must be someone out there who does not share your ideas and if his idea conflicts with yours, you two are bound to be enemies. If you think about the saying again, it makes perfect sense. When everyone is friend to each other, there will certainly be wold peace. But why haven't we achieve that? The answer lies in the flaw of mankind. Fear. Jealousy. Corruption. Decay. War. It is a bellicose and vicious cycle of hatred to begin with. Once it is started, unless someone is willing to step up and carry all the hatred, the cycle will not end. However, it is simply not humanly possible. It is impossible to get rid of all the hatred. Thus, the human flaw will still persist. In the end, people have to make enemies because they want friends. It is that emotional exchange that makes us human.

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