When a person is extremely insecure deep down, it is often accompanied by a baffling, inexplicable aggressiveness. Because what truly hurts him is not other people—it’s the fact that he can never accept himself. So he becomes unusually sensitive to the outside world: someone’s ordinary words, a glance, or an unintentional disregard from others—all of it, without him even realizing it, he interprets as rejection, contempt, or provocation. To protect his fragile self-esteem,