When someone insults you and/or calls you out on something and what they say is actually CORRECT, what should you do?

Whenever this happens I'm clueless. I WANT to insult them back but if what they said is actually true then I can't really say anything. So I just stay quiet.

A more or less recent example that happened to me went something like:

Person: "So you don't put effort into anything at all, anything you're not immediately good at you abandon, you never practice, you just wanna be good right away, and yet you have the audacity to wonder and complain why you're not good at anything, and also resent and hate anyone better than you?!"

And I couldn't even come up with a proper response, so I just stayed quiet. I secretly knew that everything they said was 100% true, even though I absolutely hated it.

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Casheyane · 31-35, F

Do better. Beat yourself. Beat your own record.

You have the courage to admit they saw you the way you see yourself too. But see, changing that so that you'll have a proper response when someone tries to say that to your face again requires effort and time from you.

If being on the receiving end of that hurts you, step up and don't give them a reason to say that about you.

Sometimes the harshness of other people do tend to hurt. But sometimes, it lets us accept what we already know. That we know we could do better, so we ought to do exactly that.

Yes, I speak from experience.