Your Progress Will Always Invite Fault-Finding From Those Who Are Stagnant

You can choose to live an aimless and demotivated life, and those around you will never see faults or flaws in you. However, as soon as you start improving and show signs of progress, the same people will all of a sudden identify your faults and flaws.

This is not because you did not have those faults before you began developing and improving yourself. Those "faults" seemed insignificant because, to people's eyes, you were leading an insignificant life anyway.

Human beings tend not to be kind to those whom they perceive as inferior, or those whom they always thought would amount to nothing.

Generally, people always gauge how they are doing in life by observing those around them. If one person observes that the next person is either at the same "level" as them or "beneath" their level. No matter what they do, their flaws, mishaps, and faults will not be highlighted by the observer. They will not even see them.

Tables drastically turn when a person whom the observer sees as "above" their level or seems to be progressing than they are. That is where the fault-finding mission begins.

How your behaviour is, how you speak, how you walk, what you say etc, will be under scrutiny. The joke you may make will be offensive, but if you were to make the same joke as someone who is seen as "going nowhere" or "beneath" them, it will be perceived as just that, a joke.

A stagnant life despises a progressive life. A person will always be unhappy to see the next person, particularly those they deem inferior, dumb, or obtuse, progressing before them. It is not necessarily a matter of your faults and flaws as a human being, but it is all about making themselves feel better by identifying and expressing those, especially in the presence of others. And often, they get exaggerated.

An individual or a family that lives a better life than most of those around them will always be a topic of discussion amongst gossip mongers. This is by no fluke; it is how human nature is.

A "rich" aunt may exhibit certain behaviours, and everyone in the family will be up in arms about those behaviours. While, when a "poor" aunt displays the same behaviours, no one gets up in arms for the identical behaviour. They'll come to her defence, claiming that is how she is.

What this teaches us is that the more you are perceived to be more successful or progressing, there will be a lot more people who will find faults in your character. This is not about your character, but because those people feel inadequate, purely by seeing themselves as stagnant and not being on the same level as you are.

Therefore, in your quest for success, expect that your character will be attacked once people start "seeing" it. Even those you love will automatically find faults in whatever you do. That is the price people pay for advancing their lives. The earlier you accept this truth, the more you will live peacefully amid all the fault-finders.