Personal Essay: The Power Of Criticism

The Power of Criticism

It’s natural for people to have reactions about things they observe. We are liable to expressing our minds and emotions, even if that means criticizing someone. As a result, no matter what we do, we will always meet people who will look at our actions and criticize us even if that doesn’t give them much gain. However, a great example of this is social media, where people can criticize someone for actions that really don’t matter on a larger scale. We can see different comments about people criticizing someone’s hair color, choice of clothes, appearance or opinion. This just shows that humans are likely to to being critical to others. However, how well can people take criticism? From childhood, people are naturally self-defensive towards criticism. For example, children dislike when parents give them disapproval and in response they try to protect …show more content…
When you live in a similar society, everyone more or less follows the rules, looks the same, dresses the same, so it’s easier for people to blend in, but there were situations when we had a new kid transferring to our school who didn’t follow general rules and would wear differently from everyone else. This attracted some attention from the bullies of the class and they would make comments about the kid’s clothing and mock him. That always made me extremely mad, and I tried to stand up for that kid, but it was very hard thing to do because everyone preferred to stay quiet. That kind of criticism is a useless one, it’s very harmful and people should learn to ignore it, rather than take it seriously and start looking for flaws in themselves. Such occasions in school taught me that being mean to other people can be very hurtful, and I learned to stand up for a victim. So, even though I wasn’t direct subject of criticism, I still learned a lot from other people’s