Like resignation at the end

Indifference, to me is the emotion you reserve for a total stranger.
You don't know that person, you don't care about that person so the end result would be indifference.

Hatred is not indifference, is it?
It's not a good emotion but at the same time, when you hate someone it means that you think about them.
That they somehow occupy your thoughts and you feel an emotion towards them.

Indifference would also mean that you don't feel anything in one's presence. You have no problem looking at them, striking a conversation when needed and just not caring about their existence.

So, theoretically, when your ex couldn't return your glance, change his number to avoid you, wouldn't speak to you nor will he even mention your name, that would mean he isn't indifferent toward you. Am I right?

There's a place for you reserved somewhere within him that prevented him from just ignoring your existence.
Maybe it's hatred, maybe it's resentment, maybe it's even love.

It's just pitiful when you hate someone you used to have a history with. Particularly when that person you hate hasn't even done anything worth hating. I think it's a disguise of an even deeper emotion that you simply don't have the desire to figure out.
It's easier to hate someone than to realize you can't get over them. You push them away because it's easier than working things out. But then those feelings you suppress resurface and you, always looking for the easy way out just dismiss them as hatred. Simply because it's easier and it works for you.

I can't relate to those who won't reflect on themselves.
Those who don't know what's going on in their own head.
Those who just can't be bothered to know their own emotions.

Much less those who screwed up so badly while involving someone else's emotions besides their own but refused to take any responsibility for it.
And in the end, simply walked away to save his own sorry ass.

Sigh. How inhuman can some human beings get.