The Hatred in My Heart

 

There is more than enough hate in this world.  I wish I didn't contribute to it, but I do.  Deep in my heart, I do hate.  I hate the state of our world.  I hate racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny.  Oh and climate change.   But most of all, I hate Gary's cup.  I mean I really, really hate that fucking cup.  


There it is.  Look at it.  Just sitting there.  My arch-nemesis.


It looks like an ordinary cup but it haunts my dreams.  Or rather, it would if I ever slept long enough to dream.  But I do not.  Mostly, because of this damned cup.  You see, Gary knocks this cup off his bedside table.  Every.  Single.  Night.  Every night.  


Every single night I am awakened by this cup crashing to the floor.  Because it's metal, it sounds like the world imploding when it hits the ground.  It is a horrible sound to be awakened by and the moments after I am started out of sleep, I realize what happened and get instantly annoyed that instead of sleeping, I will now be mopping the floor.  

Every night.  


I fantasize about throwing away the cup, smashing it with a hammer, driving over it.  Then backing up and driving over it again.


Someone suggested that I am projecting onto the cup all of my feelings of frustration, that I am displacing a whole host of emotions onto the cup.


I don't think so.  I really think it's the cup.

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