“There can’t be anyone, I am sure, who doesn’t know what it feels like to be disliked, even rejected, momentarily or for sustained periods of time. Perhaps the feeling is merely indifference, mild annoyance, but it may also be hurt. It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated – hated for things we have no control over and cannot change. When this happens, it is some consolation to know that the dislike or hatred is unjustified – that you don’t deserve it.”
