Hey, I’m sorry you have to read comments like that. That was a dickish thing to say. You were open and honest about your feelings (in this case, that you were m

Hey, I’m sorry you have to read comments like that. That was a dickish thing to say. You were open and honest about your feelings (in this case, that you were more diligent and intelligent than your coworker and yet made the wrong choice and ended up ‘falling behind’ them). It’s a shame that even in an anonymous forum people are so obsessed with self-filtering and coming across precisely correct, not too confident and not too self-effacing, that they end up punishing someone just for candidly articulating what’s going through their mind. Don’t let it get you down. Think about all the opinions you’ve had about internet strangers, how little information they were based on, how unlikely it was that they were correct, much less represented the totality of who that person is. Imagine someone actually adjusting their self-image by the opinion of someone whose only knowledge of them is two paragraphs of text. That’s mad. I know we’re inclined to believe criticism more than praise, but I really hope you can focus on the positives and the helpful comments from this thread, and find a happier way of living. I wish you way more than luck.