Do you really Care on what other People have to say about you?
By incus99
@incus99 (1083)
Philippines
August 9, 2010 8:10am CST
I have lived with the premise that you can't please everybody... I lived a peaceful life in my childhood.. with all the praises from my friends and family.. When I started my own family, we chose an entrepreneurial career path which was different from the rest who are all employees... we exponentially grew our income and expanded our assets at a tremendous rate.. that our relatives started to notice and made negative remarks about us.. for sometime we consorted with family functions to quell the disparity, the more obvious our difference the more back bites and rumors.. after 3 years of consorting.. we finally decided to ignore all comments about us..from that day on our lives became better...
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25 responses
@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
9 Aug 10
I always said that I don't care what do other people say about me, but there are some cases when it does bother me. I try not to listen to them, but I can't help it, it just happens. Usually I try not to respond them, and after a while everything goes away, and that makes me stronger. I hope that in the future I will be totally immune at what others say about me, and I think I am on a good way. Because I think it is more important to be satisfied with yourself as others to be satisfied with you.
@Segerer (53)
• Argentina
9 Aug 10
Well i think you should listen to others to a certain extent. Because you dont want to change, but you dont want to be socially torched just yet.
Remember you can always as well, pick good things from what people tell you.
Not listening to others would be being stubborn, but listening to the others all the time would be idiotic and frustrating. So....just stay at the middle? hahaha.
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
10 Aug 10
not really. i see it like if i treat everyone the way i want to be treated and respect as well. and have manners then i dont care. i am not her to impress anyone or be like anyone else.
i have many people who say many things about me, some see one side which is good, loving and caring and then the harder side of me.
but i have gain more respect for so many for being straight up and honest with them. where some just cries over things i say.
@b3ginn3r (221)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
Wow, it's really great to be an entrepreneur rather than being an employee. I hope I could be one soon. Anyway, with regards to people saying negative stuffs about you, it's just normal for them to spout out some nonsense. As long as you know that you haven't done anything wrong, whatever they say won't matter. They're just insecurities materialized in lies.
@stefanisaiah (167)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
Incus, obviously they envy you. I believe those people who comment bad in your career path envy your status right now. ignoring them is the right decision, why listen to them, if you have your own life. YOur success depends in your hands not in what other believe. As long as you know what you are doing, keep it up.
@ruth98 (106)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
People sometimes could not help showing how unhappy they are with their own lives, that's why they say bad things about others who are in a better situation than them. When I got married and because my hubby is a British and I'm a Filipina, People, started talking. My hubby and I are very happy with each other and money is not something that we have a problem with, but because people are so envious, they started saying that I was a gold digger and other bad thing. Or people will say that my hubby is looking like a father cause of our age gap. It hurt before and we just decided to ignore it and let them swallow their own words. I can say to myself that, I don't have anything to be ashamed of and if they want to tell me something then say it to my face, and of course, nobody will. I think, wherever we go and whatever we do, will cross path with these kind of people, it's just up to us to stand to them. They are just so unhappy with their own lives and have too much insecurities.
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
10 Aug 10
Hi Incus,
I don't care what most people think of me or at least not enough to change up to please them. I do care very much what my children think of me and certain very good friends. If those people had something negative to say about me then I would have to stop and pay attention to it. These are people that love me and that I love also. Their thoughts matter a great deal to me.
@greenace (123)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
Things will definitely get better if you'd just mind your own business. I think there are people, even those who are considered friends or close to you or even those who just know you, who are innately jealous of others' happiness so they tend to become faultfinders and start to backbite. If they can't find any fault with you they would just keep on annoying you person so you'd start to loose control and, unknowingly, you'd been caught by the bait set by these faultfinders.
@charlies2805 (777)
•
10 Aug 10
Sometimes, ignoring all comments about us can protect us from such a big war that might ever happen. I personally don't care about what people say about me, as long as it doesn't disturb me. If someone says something good about me, then I will go back to him or her then say thanks. But if it's something wrong that someone talks about me, I would just ignore it. I have a belief that people from our level wouldn't do such thing EVEN when we are jealous. Remember that jealousy can cost us ANYTHING.
@monkeylong (3139)
• Guangzhou, China
10 Aug 10
Yeah, as far as I am concerned, I think sometimes I do care so much about others' saying about me. For what they said have just upset me so much ,which I just can not set it aside. Then I think I will try my best to fight back to them to protect myself.
@tvdsoccer (63)
• United States
10 Aug 10
Yes, I do care, my brothers and sisters loooking up to me! i have to Set and Example! I want them to remenber me as a good person not as a bad one! in additionn i would love to make a difference in their lifes. Hopefully i will leav a legosy of myself
@sach143_u (859)
• India
9 Aug 10
Why we have to think about saying of others? I won't care about those words, i use to be prompt in all work and i wish to do the same in future. Whatever i do in my life, i use to think about it twice and i will take suggestions from my friends and parents then i will proceed. If people says that i am not doing good then thats not my problem may their way of watching is bad. They have to improve rather than me.
@06MLam (620)
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9 Aug 10
Usually, I will try to listen to what the others say about myself so as to find ways on how to improve myself. This usually works because they just act as my mirror to reflect which parts I do well and which parts I do badly.
However, if it is your case, I will simply ignore all the rumours because they are rumours instead of facts. They are created by those jealous people. This consquently avoid them to improve because they just focus on feeling jealous about you but not trying to think about why you have such a success in your business. If I were you, I will do the same as you do so that I will have expanded my business even more to prove to them that my success is due to my deligence as well as intelligence.
@annlucille (20)
• Philippines
10 Aug 10
Even if you tried to ignore what other people say about you, you just can't help but be affected. I think it's human nature. Of course we all want to please everybody, but there are people who are jealous of what we accomplished. What we can do is focus on our goals and family, as long we're not hurting anyone.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
9 Aug 10
Hi Incus,
We meet again! :)
Yes, I agree with you that one cannot please everyone out there... there is a whole lot of people around and if you think you can please everyone... you are either insane or God personified; though I wonder everyone is pleased with God too.
There are two kinds of criticisms that you get - I call one as a Constructive Criticism - here I love to hear what they have to tell me coz I know that there is something wrong with me and I can change that to become a better person. Parents, Family and Best Friends are for that.
The second category - I call it - Destructive Criticism - where people start criticizing you just because they are jealous, or cannot reach where you have reached or otherwise - I dont pay a heed to these. I know people have a short lived memory and soon will forget this whole affair.
It is a difficult thing to learn and master but over the period I have been able to differentiate between the two and been in an advantageous position
@abj163 (1037)
• India
9 Aug 10
no i never care about what others say about me......because i know mine ...i believe in mine....i know i havent done anything wrong....then why should i care about what others say.....they just keep saying bad words about us because they just like to do that....they just want some fun......but it totally bullsh*t......i have recently gone through a experience....i visited my uncles house for some work...i was leaving after my work was over there...but they stopped me from leaving....and we just chatted there for an hour....they talked to me very nicely....and i left that place after 1 hour of chat.....
on the next day i got the news that as i left their home they were talking about me....of course bad things......my uncle said there that i am boy who have no work no studies.....my aunt said that i need a psychiatrist .......they were just laughing at me....when i heard this from my cousin.....who lives on the first floor there....and my cousin told me this because he knows hows my nature....and hows my uncles and my aunts......so i just laughed there.....and told my cousin not to take it seriously..because this will happen again and again in your life.....so why to care about it....just be yourself....dont change yourself for someone else....people have their f*cking mouth so they will keep saying.......
happy mylotting
@irisseno (134)
• Philippines
9 Aug 10
when i was younger a really made a big deal with what other people would say about me..but since i got pregnant, i got to thinking what will their statements do to me, they're not the one who'll make future. so from then on, i just do things my way without thinking what others might say..as long as i'm not hurting other people or doing something illegal...i'll do it.
@AlixJ18 (27)
• United States
9 Aug 10
Yes i always care what people think and have to say about me, i know the saying it doesn't matter what others think only what you think about yourself, but if that were true we would live in a world by ourselves not around a ton of other people that are judgmental by nature. But of course there's a lot of things that should just be ignored, especially when people are just trying to be mean, and a lot of times it's not even what they really think, like calling someone ugly because you are actually so jealous of their beauty.
@fizzysoda (7)
• United States
9 Aug 10
I usually try to ignore it, but when it gets out of hand, then yes, I do care what people have to say about me.