”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mohandas Gandhi
I know what it is like to be
hated, and I know
what it is like to be ignored.
Being ignored is far worse. Unless people are
listening, unless they
care, you don’t have
a chance in hell of making any kind of
impact.
The opposite of love is not hate: it’s indifference. If someone
bothers to hate you it means that
they care about you. They don’t care to see you
happy, they don’t care to
help, but they do
care, they are watching —you have a chance to
make your point. You could
turn that hate in to love.
(
We hate those who resemble ourselves the most. It won't be hard I bet.)
Of course
some people who believe in this idea too strongly end up as victims of
domestic violence . . . . –but there is something to it. If anything, we should be able to see how it is possible to use the
hatred others may have for us to our own
advantage.
After all, we know that the ones who
hate us the most really, really,
care.