Apathy

1 May 2000 - Apathy
I just read something today. Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. That struck me. I don’t know which is more prevalent. I know that I encounter much more apathy than I do hate. And thinking about it now I can see that apathy does a lot of damage all around. Bobby, my biological father, comes to mind. Jon and I actually didn’t give him much thought. But if we had we might have concluded that he hated us. And looking back now I am sure that wasn’t the case, but he was totally apathetic towards us. He just didn’t care one way or the other. I am trying to imagine what would be more damaging. My guess would be hate. If a persons hates they are more likely to take action.
Thinking about society, it leads me to believe that we are terribly apathetic. People don’t vote because they don’t care. We don’t speak out because we are afraid or because we are apathetic. I hear of people being attacked and the neighbors looking out the windows but not coming to the person’s aid. Or a child is being abused but no one reports it until it is too late.
Not that I want anyone to hate me, but if someone is apathetic towards me I take it as a high insult. Well just thinking out loud here today.
Y’all have a wonderful day. Jami