Jean-Paul Sartre said it: "Hell is other people!" That statement is elemental to Sartrian Existentialism -- and yet it also comfortably describes the ordinary elements that disrupt and complicate our lives. Namely, other people...
"Other people" complicate our lives by being different than we are: they think differently, they act differently, they are -- in essence and existence (ironically) -- different. Learning to somehow co-exist with others is one of the proof marks of maturity. Nonetheless, people of any age can be immature (and unknowing). They can be difficult (and demanding about it) and they can be impossible (what do you know, anyway?).
For me -- my Gemini Mother-in-Law and my Gemini former lover -- both were unfathomable to be small mind.
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