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When we got the food, people were complaining that the sauce was too spicy or the chicken wasn’t cooked the way they liked it. When one of the people in my group asked me how I liked my food, I responded, “It’s great. Someone bought me this food. I can’t ask for anything more.”
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What I was eating was not the best tasting variation of this dish I’ve had but it’s not horrible. But someone took the time to make this for me and someone paid for it, so I’m going to enjoy it.
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Whenever I hear people complain about things like movies, music, eating out, plays, television, how someone you barely know looked at you weird or whatever it really bothers me. You get to complain about these things because real life-or-death things aren’t bearing down on you. You don’t have to shoot your way to a well to get dirty, germ-infested water? Then guess what, life’s alright.
Nobody wants to see someone do poorly but it happens. So, celebrate the things you like and enjoy and share those things. (And keep your complaints to yourself.)
1000 x Yes.
This so completely sums up how I feel about complaints, particularly semi-anonymous Internet complaints, and particularly for things you didn’t pay for, like free Internet resources.
I find it very hard to be critical when I review things because I know how much effort goes into creating things, and in general I’m largely happy that something exists rather than not existing.
This feeling is inversely proportional to how many people were involved in the process, however. I think this links back to the monkeysphere idea - I find it hard to conceptualise some band of engineers at Avaya building our phone system, so I will rant vociferously about it. This isn’t fair, but it’s true.
Next time you post a snarky comment, try and consider what you would say if the author was standing right in front of you.
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