Are you afraid

When someone is critical of you, what do you?

Do you run away and hide?

Do you just complain?

Don't.

Use it as fuel. Get angry at yourself. Don't become complacent. Don't seek the comforts of a cigarette or the bottle. Analyze your shit. Criticism makes life great and more interesting because it gives you time to get better. Reach inside yourself, because that is where the treasure of fortitude lies. Everyone is an expert. You are your own best expert. Nobody knows you like you know yourself, but, how deep are you willing to go into your own catacombs? Are you afraid of your own shadows when you are spelunking into the caves of your mediocrity, self-doubt, and ineptitude? Your best self is in the gallows of your soul that you never even knew existed, but, it's there, built up over time, like a stalactite of your essence, waiting to be discovered. Criticism is great because you have to do the hard digging, to find your rare, inner-self minerals that give you life. No one else is going to dig into the viscera for you. No one is going to hand you a shovel to your solar plexus where the complexities of life radiate your nerves, so, don't go looking for sympathies from the sycophants. Get into the pit of your stomach and find out what you are really made of.