Revulsion

While shopping at a local grocery store, I strode past another man going the opposite direction in the aisle.  He was clean-cut and neatly dressed.  I don’t recall having ever seen the man before.  As we whisked by each other, I glanced at him but he did not acknowledge me in in any manner.

Here is the strange: The instant my eyes fell upon the man, I experienced revulsion.  Within another second, I felt what I can only be describe as loathing for the man. 

Why did I feel that?  The man did nothing more than walk past me.

I spent the next few hours trying to figure out what triggered my instant repulsion.  Was there something vile and detectable at play within the man?  Did I intuitively perceive evil?

Or is there something twisted in me?

—Mitchell Hegman