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To be honest, I kind of like when people hate me for no good reason. It gives me a window into who they really are, into the kinds of things that they allow to define their behaviors. It gives me more power, releasing me from any misguided inclination I might have had previously to overextend myself to them.
That they would allow themselves to take on inappropriate behaviors as a result simply means that they are challenged about something about you. That they are out of control actually means that you have some power over them, even though they are making a point of acting out the opposite of that principle.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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