Dear Disgust,

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You're everywhere...

On the news, in the paper, at the park, in people's hearts...

Why do you contribute to all that is wrong with the world? Things are thought into existence because of you, Disgust. Terrible things. I don't understand how or why you have come to help corrupt the hearts of people.

See, it all starts with you, Disgust, but then you grow into something worse...

Hatred.

The saddest part about it is, Disgust is not instinct, it is something that it taught, just like your good friend Hatred.

I guess the good part is that you're not the beginning of all things bad. It's natural to see a bug crawl all over one's lunch and feel disgusted. Same thing if you happen to stumble upon something unpleasant to the eye, but there are special cases in which one feels such disgust that it grows in to something much, much more...

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