A Difficult Man
Everyone has had to deal with difficult people. As I am writing this there are apparently 7.7 billion people in the world, which means there are 7.7 billion unique personalities, each with their own ideas, experiences, beliefs, and prejudices. For most people, what is any belief, political, religious, or otherwise, but a disguised prejudice. At any rate, with 7.7 billion personalities, disagreement is inevitable, and we are bound to encounter someone we find distasteful, to put it mildly. Conversely, each one of us will be a difficult person to someone else. I have encountered people in my life who seemed to be so devoid of any redeemable qualities, who had negative characteristics to such a degree that I found it hard to believe that they brought value to anyone else’s life. I couldn’t help but assume that they were as unloved as they were unloving. Which is tragic in many…