For the first time in my life, I feel like I actually understand that phrase. “Everybody is a critic”. I've heard it for years on end used on TV sitcoms as the punchline, but never before did I realize that it was a statement of truth, an omen even. Everybody actually is a critic.
People that have been on their job 5 minutes think that they can actually advise you on how to do your job, and you're their damn boss.
They don't only have suggestions and advice they also have mediocre deductions and confounded correlations to explain bit by bit and chart by chart why their advice is the best advice to take. No one, absolutely no one stares you straight in the face and says “if you take my advice, you'll have the life that I have so you choose what you should do”.
Sadly, the omen that everybody is a critic is even more true on the flip side of that coin. When you begin giving someone advice that desperately needs it, they ignore every word that you say. They are on pins and needles trying to hold their sanity together, at the same time they wouldn't fill the prescription that a master doctor gave them to save their own life. What can you tell someone that knows everything?, (or at least think they know it all).
The answer is absolutely nothing. If it ended there that would be fine however to watch that completely oblivious of ignorance wallowing around in human flesh stagger from foolish deed to foolish deed is just egregious, annoying, and if you live with it, unacceptable.
But hey what do I know I'm just a critic.
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