Sometimes, no matter what you do, no matter how impeccable your character is, no matter how much goodness you bring into the world, no matter how kind you are, no matter how much love you extend, no matter how much of your own being you selflessly give for the sake of others, someone may still hate you.
Maybe hate is too hyperbolic of a word. They’ll dislike you. Disregard you. Dismiss you. Overlook you. Ignore you. Miss you completely. Push you aside. Give you the cold shoulder. Give you the finger. Give you a piece of their mind. Or something other than the warm acceptance you had hoped for and maybe even deserved.
Heck, you could be Jesus Christ himself walking among them and get the same response. In fact, it’s the response he did receive, to a horribly violent end.
And why? It’s human nature. Sometimes we humans can get so dark and twisty inside that we simply lose all appreciation for beauty or love. As one insightful songwriter has said,
'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, playTaylor Swift
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off, hoo-hoo-hoo!
Which turns out to be really good advice. Advice that I can’t help but suspect that Jesus would dance along to.
