sleepless beauty

Rumors that spread around our sphere everyday are signs that we are doing great. More, the right thing. They signal that our personal and professional decisions of going against our limitations or weaknesses are worth taking.

Man, it is just sad that rumors exist because we cannot always expect that everybody will be pleased about the goings on in our life. Out there, I mean, everywhere there is a corner that houses persons who are full of insecurities. The sadder part here is that, they will not remain that way. And by allowing themselves to be engulfed by envy and jealousy–whether or not you are aware that they are your enemies–your happy hours are numbered. That is the saddest.

You will not understand why suddenly they become offensive and you have no way to get away with it. It is either you allow yourself to be hurt or you fight back. The latter of course is pathetic. Highest patience and sympathy should go to people who cannot accept the fact that there are some things where you dictate the field and there they have no say.

They think that their best weapon to drag you down is through their winged offenses. Humans as we are, gossips tend to arrest a decoder instantly because these are long on rhetoric. But these will never bring proof to the surface. These are always short on evidence. Plus people behind it will not show their faces. One sign of lack of substance and verity.

Usually a mixture of truth and untruth, fabricated stories fly around, passed around by word of mouth and BOOM! Suddenly, you are at fault. Suddenly you are bad. You will never know what’s cooking up to poison the minds of the very people whose confidence go out to you. What is left to do is to fight for your own stead. In times like this, keeping your cool is the most potent defense. Who is stabbing you from behind is always a question. It is like your worst nightmare coming true.

How come in a competitive world–invaded by learned people–gossip secures itself as the currency? Worse, it could happen within your industry or your company. Worst, unbelievable too, is that there are some people your senior who count gossips, rumors, or hearsays as facts. They believe instantly without giving the rumor’s subject the chance to disprove them. I know some people that opted to leave their posts because of hearsays. Driven perhaps by lack of nerve to stay or they cannot afford anymore to stand the unhealthy atmosphere.

This note reminds me of them, inspired by these people actually.

Talk, especially of the anonymous kind, is forever cheap. The most notorious form of it is hearsay. It follows a format that always targets a destroying end. Men responsible for this evil act want you to feel that you have invisible enemies around and you are not safe from their tongues. But pay them no attention. Expect that people behind the wheels of manipulation will never shed the cloak of anonymity and will never have the nerve to come forward.

That qualifies them not as worthy opponents.