Handling Rude Comments (Criticism)

Rude comments are something which we all can face at any time at any place, it hardly matter what job you are doing like you may be a clerk, accountant, writer, social worker and a housewife. Though, nobody likes to hear these comments but still we get them at certain points. Most of the time, these rude comments hurt our feelings and can make us sad. Therefore, it is very important for us to perfectly handle these comments for not allowing them to affect us. In present life and culture chances of getting rude comments are many more because there are many people in this world who feel jealous of others. Mostly, these people show their frustration by giving rude comments to the other person from whom they are feeling jealous and sometimes innocent people also become the victim of these comments for being in the wrong place at wrong time. It is not possible for any person to stop others from giving rude comments; we can only make changes in our mind conditioning to not get affected with these unwanted rude comments. Below are few points, by following which people can easily avoid rude comments from hurting them (may not fully but significantly).

1) It is better to prepare yourself for criticism even before other people criticize you with rude comments.
2) Always expect some kind of criticism for your work.
3) Try to sometime indulging in self criticism.
4) Feel sympathy for the person who is criticizing or giving rude comments because something is wrong with him emotionally.
5) Feel good on being criticized because you at least have something in you which many other do not have.
6) Remember this fact that majority of the criticisms emerge from Jealousy and there are some people jealous of your progress.
7) Try to learn from criticism scope of improvements.
8) Feel happy that people criticizing you are actually afraid of your increasing stature.
9) Remember criticism hurts the person himself more than whom he is criticizing.
10) Remember many people criticizing you may not actually know they are criticizing you.
11) Most of criticisms emerge from failures and frustrations; therefore there is no need to take them seriously.
12) Criticisms sometime help you in identifying your mistakes.
13) Some criticisms and rude comments which we get as after effects of our own criticisms and rude comments, therefore avoid giving rude comments to others.
14) Remember that nobody comes in to this world in perfect state and we only become perfect by making number of mistakes.


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