Mirror

How you treat others is how others treat you.

If you treat others like an experiment, like a fool, then others will too. That is how emotions usually prompts us to react. If a person keeps in too much hate, he or she will react in hateful ways, just like a mirror that reflects whatever that is shone upon it. Some call this karma, but I call this a waste of time.

Reversely, if you do not offend people, people will not offend you. However, in a mirror, refraction happens too. And people who aren't involved get affected. The hate multiplies from an area to another. Whether it continues to spread or not really depends on the individuals who received the hate. Wise ones will dump it, whereas some will hold on to it and wait for a target to throw at.

These are all caused by emotions.

People who are "numb" are usually the ones who have emotions but are not controlled by it. People can shoot them hateful words and gestures, but they do not choose to take it to heart. They dump it. Just like a beginner guitarist, his fingers might bleed and blister from the pressure against the strings, but at the end of the day, it is the perfect musical piece that is an achievement to him.

Same for us, the peace and harmony is what matters in the end.

That is our perfect musical piece.

Forgive.