The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

[Edwardo Piet]

I don't hate him either. But I do dislike him.

I feel contempt for a lot of people. But hate? No.

Contempt is a strange one. It seems more like an attitude than a feeling to me. Resentment is most definitely a feeling and, supposedly, contempt is too.

But for me if contempt is a feeling at all it is an extremely brief combination of intense disillusionment + exasperation for a few minutes and then it is followed by a complete disconnect of feeling due to a decision made that any feeling invested is going to be harmful both to myself and others and the person is too toxic to be worth my time.

Yeah I have contempt for Drich but it's more of an absence of feeling than a feeling.

I would be hard pressed to name any instance of hatred in my whole life.

Same. Anger? Yes. Resentment? Yes but not for long. Contempt? Yes. Although it's more of a new thing because I used to have too low self esteem to cut off even the most toxic people and I still struggle with it a little sometimes.

Hatred? Absolutely not never that shit is deep. I've said it a few times in my life and I've in the moment believed that's what I felt but it was all so fleeting and followed by apologies and regrets and I don't think that's anywhere near worthy of the depth of true hatred. It was more frustration and exasperation and anger that led to the words "I hate you" in my fury.