As in, the belief that most people don’t really like them or are out to belittle them.
Doesn’t help that said friend’s social media postings do offer a little insight into just how pessimistic one can be to one’s own work and efforts.
You are your own worst critic/enemy, after all.
We’ve at times, observing this, thought, “They shouldn’t be so hard on themselves.”
We guess it’s a good thing we never really said that out loud to said friend, because reflecting upon it now, it does sound uninformed and a tad condescending. Like, if we got the retort, “You think I don’t want to ah?” and looked upon with disappointment for making some judgement call with little understanding, we probably deserve that.
And now just looking back, our first sentence here should be corrected to: could be someone who doesn’t have things easy.
And if we don’t know how to help, we should hopefully try not to add to their troubles.
