Control, love, and choices

 All frustration is born out of a lack of control.

Control that never truly existed in the first place.

You're leaving our relationship? 
My business isn't doing well?

You're not laughing at my jokes.
My pet is dying.

That stranger was rude to me!

Not one of these things is controllable because it relies on another.

Now hatred, that is love plus control.

Love is just love, love happens effortlessly, love is our standard state of being. We are born loving the first people we grow up with, we naturally love anyone who we spend an amount of time with.

Hatred happens when someone or something we care about spirals out of OUR control. Real or imaginary, there is a desire to exert control over what we hate in some manner.

or when we convince ourselves of a threat to what we love, real or imaginary.

There are physical rules of the universe, we have to eat or we die.
We get to make up a lot of things, like WHAT we eat.
There are consequences for what we eat, and that is part of the physical universe.
But the way humans have cornered the market in control on our planet allows us to choose from many different paths.

We can Choose to consume animals, who unequivocally love us when we care for them. Or we can choose to exploit them until we viciously murder them, for what amounts to the same stuff as when we eat plants.

These are the choices we make.