Their is as far as I can tell, only three states of human emotion that
seem to make any difference.  Each is very hard to define but are
quantifiable by anyone who is human and who wants to look dear into
his soul. (Providing their is such a thing.)

They are in order love, hate and hope.  and the reason why ...

Let's start with the easy one, love. 

Love. True love is rather like Chernobyl. Yes the reactor. It burns
very hot and is fueled by the soul that is infected by it. It consumes
everything around it, and it makes no choices. It takes everything and
is relentless, but after it bursts into the world with it's
brilliance, it slowly sinks into the person that it infects. The
longer it sinks the dimmer it may appear from the surface but make no
mistake the reactor is still their. No one can destroy the reactor,
not even the one it's burred into. Like the reactor, it's fire is far
greater than it's host.

Hate. Hate is the pile of garbage that we pile up around ourselves. In
and of it self that pile is not all that bad, but from time to time it
fires itself into life. When it burns it's more like a trash barrel,
and that is just exactly what it is. The soul expunging itself. The
fire burns brightly and smells, but after it's over it's only a slight
dent in the ground and a little pile of ash. Hate burns everything
clean, and builds a new slate to start over on.

Hope, now hope is the hard one to describe because it lives deep
within a person. It lives in a place that not even love can burn
away, but but it can come close.

Hope is just a tiny spark. The little thing that ignites both love and
hate. It's just a little spark in the very palm of one's hand. It has
no beginning like love and hate. As long as you exist it has no
end. You can not stop it.
. 
It's the reason why I'm scribbling this, and the reason you are
reading it.

Don't toss away the spark... instead light something. }:8>