Judgemental People

It's so sad when your intentions are misunderstood. People often misinterpret without discerning the context, understanding the cause, knowing the source, or considering the trauma, journey, and the entirety of the story. Especially when your words or actions weren't meant in the way they perceived. Then, you feel forced to make a statement and defend yourself just to get things straight.

A victim of criticism too. A valid opinion from past misery. The unheard one side. Scream of the voiceless. This is the danger of creative writing. 😥✍️

Why do you even have to write? Well, why don't you ask that to our journalists, authors, researchers, historians, novelists, bloggers and the next generation of writers-those who choose this career as their contribution in their time.

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In addition to this context, our universe evolves in a matter of balance. Positive and negative like Yin and Yang, black and white, right and wrong. The writer may have not known the subject's side but, CONSIDER the nature or the source of the writings. Everyone has a right to reason out their opinions. Nobody is wrong in making one. Regardless of people's background and status, everybody is innocent in their own thoughts. Why?! Because, this is their point of view, their matter of understanding, the level of their knowledge and to be more precise, their experiences. Even if you think you are more right, their thoughts might be valid. As an example of this is a product review. The writer made a frustrating feedback. Understand what and who is the writer in the topic. Is she a client, a customer, just a spectator, a critic or what? Consider the fact that the writer may express her feelings on what happened to her experience from the product, from shopping or even after sales service. So, there could be a history, trauma, or unknown and even deep unpleasant experience that may link and resurface just now. This simply implies that her own personal wisdom about it is far more different than the third person's knowing because, they are not in her shoes during those times. To conclude, part of my principle for criticism is just to stop, calm down, and understand what went wrong. Know first thing about the commentators standing. Even if you think you're right and they are wrong and felt bad about it, it's still your fault. You devalued your standards by allowing it to harm you instead of nurturing you. Lastly, do consider the type of the writing. News is a public awareness, an article is for more information and educational purposes and a journal like a diary is for life's experience. Then again, stop, calm down and consider. Most of what we encounter is a whole lot of misunderstanding. Right?! What if it wasn't even for you? Being stoic is still a winning piece. 

“It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.” - Marcus Aurelius