Sometimes to be successful you need to do things that the average person is fully capable of doing, yet not willing. Success has nothing to do with popularity.
Mediocre people think you are foolish, maybe even stupid for doing things that regular people don't do. They can't understand what you do, or why you do it. But that's okay, they don't have to understand.
It is said that obsessed is a word used by lazy folks who want to criticize, belittle, humiliate, or put to shame the diligent ones who do whatever it takes to achieve success. They're the "it don't take all that" crowd, the ones who believe success comes by accident or entitlement, who believe excellence takes too much effort, wastes too much time. They want to reap a harvest they didn't plant from seeds they didn't sow. They have no understanding of investment, whether time talent or treasure and no clue that it's possible to expect a reward on an honest effort to the best of one's ability.
They believe success is just given to people by people who "like" them, who favor them, sort of like a teacher's pet. Well, in a sense they're right: people who recognize effort...reward effort. But the ones who don't want to make an effort just don't get it. To them, it's much easier to criticize others because they don't know what others are doing, or where the results of their work may lead.
But none of that matters, because they are not the ones to judge what you do. Your peace of mind and your heart's contentment does not rest with them but with you. If you know that what you're doing is right, just, valuable, and serves a worthwhile purpose, the words of critics who fail to understand your motives mean nothing at all. Seeing how their two cents isn't really worth two cents, their words unheeded will die in their throats.
So do what you know is right, even if others don't understand, even if you feel a little foolish, you're not all that sure of what you're doing, or you can't make enough sense of what you do to explain it to someone else.
Don't be ashamed, don't be embarrassed. To those who embrace failure as a way of life, success and what one must do to achieve it, will never make sense. The critic never counts, the ones in your life who truly matter don't mind what you do, so...
"Do it anyway...because in the end, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway." - Mother Teresa
That's all for now, gotta run. Until we meet again, remember...
Keep it simple.... See ya!
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