• “How do you deal with haters?”
• “I let them deal with themselves.”
• “But how?”
• “By providing a space to do so.”
• “But how?”
• “By keeping that space empty.”
• “But how?”
• “By being absent in it myself.”
• “But how?”
• “By choosing no words as a reaction.
  By choosing silence as a response.”
• “But don’t you feel hurt by their hate?”
• “It used to. Back when I used to demand
  everyone must be sane.
  I don’t do that anymore. Instead, now
  I see people as results of their own constructs.
  If I’m not hurting anyone and yet they hate me,
  it means they have their own issues.
  They’ve chosen denial to their reality;
  and they’re too weak to face it;
  and so they’ve left those issues unresolved.
  Looking at me reminds them of it all.
  That’s why they project their denial onto me.
  It’s called transference.
  It’s a game. They start it.
  If I react, it means I’m playing too.
  It gives them the chance to keep denying.
  Instead if I respond by no reaction,
  I’m leaving them with no choice but to face it.
  They have two choice.
  Dare that. Or crawl deeper in their shell.
  Either way,
  I’m not taking them to my honeymoon;
  so it makes no difference to me.”

© Counselor Apoorva
Psychologist

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