Aristotle has a great response to the reality one will always be criticized, regardless of how hard we try to please everyone.
Be yourself, within the boundaries that are permitted by law. Know that people will speak negative, that is the norm of people. The norm with people is that if you make them 5 tortillas, they want you to “grow” into making 6. Then after you make 6, now you are ready to go to the “next level” of 7. The scale goes on and on guys. Stop for a second right now, and literally appreciate all you’ve been through, all you’ve put up with, and the effort you have put into being where you are here right now, alive and breathing. Okay? Let that not be a surprise or a pain you take personally anymore. Know that if they call you the negative label of _____________, it is not because you are in essence a _______________, you are simply not doing what they want. We want to survive, we call dangerous and harmful those who hinder that, the labels I agree with being used. Now the word “evil” I don’t like being used because: 1. This person was probably not educated with the proper balance of empathy and discipline in their upbringing to create a pleasing, productive, and harmless person. 2. Their brain composition is one that is not molding to the desirable outcomes that bring safety, and progress in subjectively meaningful satisfaction for a significant number of human individuals. 3. Look at what us humans do to plants and animals, living things, for the sake of our survival, and we call others “evil”? Our bias towards the survival of our own species has us in complete disregard of the possible pain and suffering of the plants and animals we destroy for the sake of our own livelihood. And you actually consider mankind is “decent”?
Behind the person that has become a danger to its own species there is a story, a past, a reason for patterns and mannerisms that perhaps were never corrected or guided in less painful ways from youth. Then as adults they are sometimes unable to adjust in a way that is convenient to us. Dangerous and harmful, not “evil”. Just as we don’t call lions, sharks, or spiders “evil”, just dangerous.
Keep your chin up and remember- that negative label they said of you, is not who you are, by that word they only mean to say you are not doing what they want, yet you may be doing what others do want, even if “others” is actually just yourself. Note the subjectivity of words that can’t even begin to define you. Thank you for being who you are, just the way you are, just don’t be harmful to your own kind.
