Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking exercise. He had recently got the impression he weighed too much- which was about the same as if the Atlantic Ocean had decided it was too wet...

Rex Stout
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You are too fat, you are too thin. You are not smart enough, you are too dumb. Your skin is wrong, your hair is wrong. You are too short, you are too tall.

Your voice is wrong, your face is wrong. The list goes on and on. Everyone has something they don't like about you.Everyone has something they think is fine about you.

Everyone has something they think is not fine about you. And everyone has something they don't think is fine about them, but they won't say it to your face because it would hurt their feelings or because they're afraid of what you will say in response to their unspoken insult. People may call you names behind your back and then try to act like nothing happened when you confront them in public or when they see you around town.

There's no one on the planet that's immune to people not liking them at times. Everyone has something that bothers them on some level at some point in their lives. But maybe the best way to deal with people not liking you is simple: ignore it or find some other way to get past it so that the world doesn't slow down while everyone else keeps moving forward while you're stuck in second place trying to catch up again and again and again.

Source: The Rubber Band

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