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If only they really knew, not everyone is going to like you.

If only they really knew, not everyone is going to like you, as we've talked about.

There is no one not even Marcus Aurelius who was universally beloved during their lifetime or afterwards.

It can be hard to accept this but it's harder still sometimes the reasons that they dislike you. People judge us for where we come

from, for what we look like, for our age, for our religion. They dislike us for the work we do. They dislike us for what they

heard about the work that we do. They dislike us for real legitimate reasons, mistakes

we've made, stands we've taken, and totally made up stuff.

They project their own insecurities, their own issues on to us.

They'll stick us with the consequences of their ignorance, their own poor comprehension skills, their own bad taste.

Have you ever watched, as Kipling said, the truths you've spoken get twisted by knaves to make a trap

for fools?

It's a maddening, saddening thing. Epicedus though says that we should take all

this with a smile. In fact he joked that when we find ourselves criticized or disliked

by some stranger instead of trying to convert them or argue with them,

we should just say to ourselves,

if only they really knew me,

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