Dear Mr. / Miss Hater……

Hello all you smiley faces. I hope you all are having an amazing weekend. So as the title suggests, this article is going to be about haters. The reason behind writing this article is really special.

Last Sunday I wrote about types of annoying people and on that article I got my very first hate comment. It was by certain Mr. /Miss ANONYMOUS. What he/she wanted to tell me was that I had no skills to become a writer and the whole article was pathetic. Let’s first salute Mr. /Miss HATER for giving his/her extremely frank opinion. But can we just have a moment of silence for the grammar in the comment??? I am pretty sure nobody read that comment because I deleted it as soon as I read it. There were two reasons behind this action of mine. The first one was that the comment was really rude. It could have triggered a war of words on my blog which I wanted to avoid. The second one was it was spreading a negative message about my blog. I mean I am having a really hard time getting people to read my blog and any negativity would have completely spoiled my ambition of becoming a good blogger. The second one was little selfish though.

I was on Gmail when I got the email saying that I have got a new comment on my post. My first reaction was of pure happiness. It was something like “Yayyyy….. I got a new comment…” But when I opened the email and read the comment, the color just drained from my face. My whole body started shaking and this usually happens when I am very angry or hurt. And at that time I was experiencing both feelings together. My next action was to go to my blog and hit the ‘remove content’ button in the comments section. After doing this, it took me few minutes to pull myself together. And then I started thinking about the comment which by the way is still is in my Gmail inbox and it will be there until the end of my blogging journey. I thought why anyone would put a comment like that. There were two reasons that I could think of.

1. That person might be in a very bad mood when he/she came across my article. And then that person realizes that he/she possess one of the qualities that falls under my annoying list.

2. The person has some personal problem with me and wants to cause pain to me.

Any one of these reasons might have led that person to post such a rude comment.

I then went into a deep thinking phase. And then I thought that I thank everyone who likes my blog and appreciates my work. Why shouldn’t I thank this HATER given that he/she did read my blog? Until that time I was getting a little bit of praise and encouragement for my work and then suddenly this comment came in. It’s being in a blissful dream and then suddenly you fall from the bed and are brought back to reality. I had just started to think that I can write (thanks to the love shown by all of you my lovely readers) but this person actually brought me back to the reality that I still need to improve a lot. So such comments would help be humble and grounded forever. I knew that I would face criticism and hate at some point of my blogging journey. I just thought that it came too early. But I am an optimist and such incidents trigger me to perform better. I am like a catapult (गुलेल), the more you pull the string backwards, better are the chances of the object hitting the target perfectly. I do follow this lovely quote from the movie ‘A pursuit of happyness’

The moral is that if anyone hates you or criticizes you or tries to pull you back from your goal, it is okay because HATE ≡ SUCCESS. So Mr. /Miss HATER if you are reading this article, all I want to say is thank you for hating my article. You are just helping me to become a better writer. So friends I hope you like this article about my HATE comment experience. If you have any such experience, let me know in the comments below.

Goodbye my dear friends and I will see you soon. Until then Keep Smiling. Please do follow my blog, like the facebook page. (https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Happy-Girl/292903830872974?ref_type=bookmark) and follow me on twitter (https://twitter.com/A_Happy_Girl2). If you have any suggestions or questions, please comment below.