Criticism II

I have written about criticism before. My views on criticism have changed throughout my life, and it something I think about more now. In the past, I was always suspicious of people trying to criticize me. I took it as an insult, an affront to who I was. If someone was apt to criticize, it had to be because they felt a need to degrade me, to attack me. I recently looked at a definition of criticism and it supports my prejudice:

To criticize is to attack, to condemn, to censure...To be critical...