Your life will become much easier in respect to human relationships, when you sincerely factor in that regardless of where you stand in life in terms of success—there will always be in your life, three classes of people:
1. The people that will be inspired by you
2. The people that will criticize you
3. The people that will mock you
This is the reality of this world. If you tilt too heavily on any class, you’ll find severe imbalance and problems in your life.
The people who are heavily inspired by you are inspired because they know more about your strengths and hardly know anything about the mistakes you have made that Allāh has kept hidden from them.
The people who are used to of unnecessarily criticising you are doing so because they’re trying to locate in you what’s within their own hearts.
The people who are mocking you for the greatness and its journey you’re embarking on, are people who are the oblivious average joes of their mediocre mental farmland, in which they’re enslaved.
Whether you’re appreciated, hated, loved or anything, don’t let matters irrationally get to your heart. The people are on their own journeys. Adjust intelligently from the input when required and ignore what’s meant to be ignored.
Treat your life as a very finite resource.
Because it is.
-Shadab Aly Manhas