I love this! I saw that I had a comment, I was so excited, the comment was the above. It hurt me. It hurts to share what’s on your heart and face rejection, meanness, the world’s rejection of your courage to be vulnerable. But I cannot fail to practice what I preach. If we let the world dictate our emotions, we are slaves to the public.
Man in the Arena is what I live my life by. Theodore hit it out of the park. His speech saved me in a dark time and I say the speech daily. We are not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or how the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
if you are getting criticism, you aren’t moving forward. As Marcus Aurelius says, the obstacle is the way. Go in the direction of criticism, seek it, we know we are going the right way in video games when there is new obstacles, new enemies to fight, new challenges.
I love this critic and will love the next. The difficulty is when the worst critic, the merciless one, is ourselves. For anyone reading, take what helps and leave the rest. Smile, laugh, brush the critic off, and get back in the arena! Thank you “Isreal Nite club!” May the cowards of the internet abyss armed with keyboard, who spew worthless toxicity which is only their own inadequacies projected, never be unable to find me!