Feeling blue.
Published on October 23, 2018
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Hi guys,
As most of you know, I like to write happy blog posts, about my successes here at WA and in my professional life as an engineer.
But today's post is not one of those. Like many of you, I love receiving organic comments on my posts - it is such a great feeling. So today when I got a notification that I had an organic comment I was so thrilled.
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That is, until I read what the comment had to say. It basically trashed one of my recipes. I don't expect people to be dishonest and say they love something when they don't, but there are better ways to express that, perhaps asking why they didn't turn out well and ask for some guidance.
But these turned out really well for me and I got a ton of compliments on it. I don't put out random articles for the sake of writing - I really believe in the awesome-ness of each and every one of my recipes.
But no, this person decided to flat out say "this is terrible." I know "haters gonna hate" but for a second there it really made me question why I even cook and blog.
Really sucky feeling, and it makes me infinitely more grateful for this wonderful WA community, where we encourage each other to do better and offer constructive criticism as opposed to flat out shut each other down.
Much love to all of you <3 <3 Putting yourself out there is really hard and today one of my worst fears came true, but I know I can count on all of your support <3
Janani <3
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