People seem to think that indifference is a neutral state, above and beyond love and hate. I think this is a misconception. Indifference is, in truth, a state before such notions. We are indifferent to something when it does not provoke our attention, when it's not present in our perception. Once something is present (to us), we can never be indifferent to it again. We cannot "un-see" it.
Indifference has an opposite unto itself: obsession. If indifference is that pristine state where things are not perceived by us - pristine, because it hasn't been altered by things that have not been perceived -, obsession is the state where something is so present in our reality that it overwhelms everything else.
What people refer to when they express the need to be over love and hate, is more correctly defined as "disregard", as I see it. Being the opposite of "care", disregard is that state in which you simply "don't care any more", "can't be bothered by". It no longer carries for you the emotional weight of either love or hate.
Indifference has an opposite unto itself: obsession. If indifference is that pristine state where things are not perceived by us - pristine, because it hasn't been altered by things that have not been perceived -, obsession is the state where something is so present in our reality that it overwhelms everything else.
What people refer to when they express the need to be over love and hate, is more correctly defined as "disregard", as I see it. Being the opposite of "care", disregard is that state in which you simply "don't care any more", "can't be bothered by". It no longer carries for you the emotional weight of either love or hate.
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