CRITICISM EVERYWHERE

We live in a society in which you can hear people criticising all the time, and I’m not excluding myself from this, because let’s accept it, we all criticise. We are all guilty of dissing or speaking badly of someone, because something they have done, something they have said, something about their personality or even because something about their appearance. But there is people that go beyond that and tend to criticise all the time, for every little thing, and the worst: without knowing. And this is what I’m going to talk about.

I started to think about this some days ago, when I was spending some time on Instagram. There I saw a photo of a young American actress from a famous TV series. The photo was posted on the TV series’ official Instagram account just showing the dress she had worn to an event that evening. I read some of the comments, and there were a lot of people saying that the actress had gained weight. I don’t think this is what you should tell a person, unless you are really confident with him or her, but it can be kind of accepted if you just say it with respect and as a remark, because it’s true: she had gained weight. The problem is that most of the people said it in a disrespectful way, with comments such as ‘’OMG she is so fat’’ or ‘’She looks so ugly’’, just criticising. 

The thing is that they spoke without knowing, because actually the actress, four months ago, had posted a picture on her Instagram explaining that she was having hormone problems, and although she was now healthy and getting everything back to OK, those problems had made her body suffer changes and that’s why she had gained weight.

That is what makes me be outraged: people speaking badly and showing their negative opinions without really knowing what they are talking about. And saying all that in a public space, where the people you are talking about maybe will see your comments. If you think that, it’s fine, just keep it to yourself or say it in a respectful way but, still with the actress’ example, not because she’s famous your mean comments are not going to affect her.

And that’s just an example of people criticising, but there are a lot more. For example, nowadays Youtubers have become so popular, and in every famous channel on Youtube you can find disrespectful comments insulting them. C’mon, if you don’t like that person, if you don’t like the way they talk or if you don’t like the content they have on their channel, just leave. No one is forcing you to see their videos, so if you don’t like them, just stop watching them. Of course, I’m not saying you can’t comment to give your opinion, even if you want to give a negative opinion, but just do it with respect and with a foundation. Don’t limit yourself to say ‘’Your hair is awful’’, because yes, it may sound a silly example, but you can find plenty of comments similar to this one on Youtube.

And I could go on and on putting more examples of situations like these, but that's not the point. 

In my opinion, it all gets reduced to the quote: ‘’Live and let others live’’. If you don’t like what someone is doing, just ignore it, as long as it doesn’t affect you, of course. If you think they aren’t doing the right thing, just let them figure that out, and if you can’t live without expressing your opinion and telling them what you think, just do it in a respectful way, because there’s no need of saying it meanly.