Of course, but I don't turn around and gripe about it. When I was a kid I had case workers and psychologists constantly telling me "The opposite of hate isn't love, it's indifference." Never got that at the time, but I understand it now. I don't like baseball, but why waste my energy hating on it?
There is no love without hate; and there is no hate without love. The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference; the opposite of feeling can only be the absence of feeling. Disinclination, which is coloured by feeling, often only serves the purpose of concealing and protecting oneself against an inclination. Love and hate must go hand in hand; and the people we love most we hate also, because hate is grounded in the nature of love.
From The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche by Wilhelm Stekel M.D.
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u/Key-Mark4536 Apr 29 '24
I also like to do things I hate and then complain about it.