Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Today I am dealing with people that, despite my best intentions, they come across as confrontational and ill-willed. Alas, such is life. Carry on.