Sometimes people paint things as absurd when they are really afraid of them. It’s a way to get somebody off the trail of the real issue at hand. The real issue isn’t you, or what you believe. The real issue is them, and what they believe about themselves. Criticism of others is a smokescreen to disguise their own insecurities.
Sometimes that’s the way bullies act. They make fun of you, or what you do, because it makes them feel better about themselves. Their own self-esteem becomes dependent on pointing out the failures of others. They pull themselves up by pulling down all those around them. Their success is built on top of the failures of everyone else—or seemingly so. When it’s all said and done, they don’t possess the self-confidence to go out and do what they criticize others for trying.
It can be easy, at this point, to think the critic has some valid points. But even if they make, what would otherwise be true observations, they’re not coming from a perspective of honesty. Their concern isn’t based on helping you to improve, but on helping them to feel better about themselves. The temptation is to take their criticism to heart. But here’s something to remember—their perspective is off. They have a skewed sense of reality. If they were really seeing things accurately, they would deal with their own deficiencies first instead of worrying about everyone else. But I suppose that’s why they do it: it’s easier to pick apart other people than to look at themselves.
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Another thing to think about: people’s natural inclination isn’t to approach from a point of understanding. They want to fit in, themselves, so they pick apart anything else that doesn’t fit in. The notion is that, by pointing out anything that doesn’t qualify as normal, they will fit the definition of normal by default. It’s a sensible notion, I suppose. However, it’s fairly certain that you could still recognize abnormal while being abnormal, yourself. It doesn’t absolve them of being out of the ordinary. Who said ordinary is something to be desired, anyway? If they want to be ordinary, then let ’em.
I suppose this is a grade school understanding of things. But the mindset of the critics remains the same, regardless. The critics don’t really change as we grow older. They just change tactics. What they might have accomplished with physical force in school, they now try to accomplish with words. But there are better things to be than ordinary: there’s also ‘extra’ordinary. Those truly great things accomplished in history have been largely done by those thinking outside the box. That’s sometimes the price to be paid for greatness. The person who points something out as absurd is usually being outdone by the “absurd” person doing them. I guess the bottom line is this: don’t feel bad when others criticize you; at least you tried to do something meaningful that’s worth criticizing.
This message really resonated with me. I will be absorbing and asking the Lord for a personal revelation on how I receive criticism. It is most definitely an area for continual growth and personally an area that I need to meditate on. Thanks again Brad for the wisdom and sharing the Lord’s word on this.
Thanks for the message, Steph.