Being critical

I have only recently been able to differentiate between being self-critical and being hard on self. So many times I failed to recognise my own errors when the same would not escape my radar if made by others. It is so easy to be hard on yourself and yet less forgiving of others. Until I stopped to digest events, would I realise that when you criticize others' actions, the same could be said about you and your flaws.

It is not hard to be nice to other people and to forgive. The more people trying this, the better off the society would be. And yet we tend to let our baser reaction take control of our interaction with others - the media thrashing the government, the public bodies like our healthcare, police, schools being harshly judged all the time when their work is the hardest. If you think about it, profit making organisations have it easy in my view. The worse that could happen is you make a loss. Although shareholders could claim that they could voice their views about how the execs handle their business to protect their interest, we hear all the time about these fired execs getting offered a new job in the rival firm in no time at all.