The Price of a Praise
How would you feel standing in front of 1000 people and giving an an extra ordinary speech. People are mesmerzied and hanging on every single word of yours. Every body is admiring you wishing and thinking how lucky they would be only if they can talk to you. They are clapping, shouting, screaming for you. How would that feel, Wouldn’t that feel nice. Wouldn’t you feel proud. Wouldnt you play that in your head over and over. Wouldn’t it feel beautiful. But when we see beauty in something ugliness is created.
And it feels so good that we start to cling to it,
Ladies and gentleman, praise and liking make us feel significant, important, powerful. So we start to cling on it, crave for it, want more of it. but we often overlook the toxic byproduct of that craving.
This craving for liking or praise, inavatlibly breeds mental stress and dissatisfaction. We get angery on minor remarks, even...