The Critic

You would encounter a very varied set of personalities in your life, today I will talk about the one which I have been thinking about these past couple of days.

Life is all about decision making. No matter whether you are a street vendor selling fruits or you are a chairman of a multi billion MNC or even if you are the President of a country, the basic task of a job is to make decisions. 

And no matter how good or bad you are at the job, you will definitely encounter a critic.

Lets take some examples, and for the sake of it I will talk about people who society think are successful, not that it matters.

Imagine yourself in your 30s, you are working in a 9 to 7 Private sector job, and plus you are happy with where your life is heading, but there will be someone who will ask you things like "You must hate your job. Right", "How's your boss behaving with you", "Man, you could have done better than going with the herd"

Now Imagine that you did not follow the herd and did something out of your own talent. The critic would say "Who does that? You left a well paying job for this thing", "Why isn't your startup a unicorn yet"

Imagine having the tag of a Unicorn developer with your name, the critic would still find things like "Well you took 20 years, look at him he achieved all this just with 5 years in his hand".

Enough with the imaginations. 

The conclusion is no matter who you are or what you do, there are certain individuals who will come and make you think about things which otherwise you don't care about.

Now lets get to the main subject.

A question

Whose fault do you think it is, if your life is disrupted because of these certain individuals?

Theirs? 

I think it's Yours.

If you allow statements from other people define how you react, then I am afraid to say the fault lies with you. 

Tell me, How different you are from a medieval era slave, who did whatever his master told him to do.

Aren't you losing your sovereignty? 

Am I sounding like a Critic? 

I don't know. You tell me.