Look, it's pretty short!

It's so hard to keep things in perspective. Someone just told me that someone I like said something that could be construed as negative about me behind my back, and despite the hundreds of positive experiences I have had with that person suddenly I am filled with dread that they secretly loathe me. This idea makes no sense, but it is now a possibility, and it scares me way too much. I am one of the most rational people I know, and I think this has given me a very good taste of what other people go through over things like that. I've always been kind of scornful of other people's reactions to such things. Hopefully I will be less so now.