Verbal War

I just started my own project last month, my personal project in addition to my folk's established biz.

Making my own home furniture line. Still in progress, seriously I dunno if it will be successful or not.

But I really wanna give it a try.

One day, on an unavoidable occasion, my competitor came up to me...

         Comp: I heard you are starting your own line?

             Me: Yeah, just trying

         Comp: Who do you hire?

             Me: People from Java ---> this's a very mainstream answer!

         Comp: It will not work, trust me, you better stop it

                    You cannot beat the pro-s. Just stop it. You will lose money

             Me: Ugh, yeah, you are right. I just wanna finished what I started.

         Comp: Just don't start your own line. You won't survive. [he kept on repeating few times]

              Me: Thank you for your advice

I don't believe that my line will be completed flunk. It will work, I just dunno how smooth it is gonna be.
I need to stay low, no point picking a cat-fight with the dude. Even if I win this argument, the only thing that changed would be our sour biz relation. Don't wanna waste my breath.

As I said before, I just wanna test the water. If I can do it, why not.

The competitor, was trying to sink me every now and then, VERBALLY.

Here is what I wonder, I can see how upset he is when he asked me about the new line, he even complained why we rebuilt our shop (It was destroyed during earthquake, rebuilding is a common sense)

And I can see how satisfied he is when I said, “Yeah... maybe it won't work.”

The things is, everything is said verbally...

When he said things won't work, my product doesn't immediately gone to trash can

When I said, maybe it won't work.... It doesn't mean that the production immediately ceased

We had tonnes of similar conversations, where he asked me to just stop trying, step back and even... stop selling at all. He had bad business last year, he put the blame on me.

I was stuck for days with this dude. On each conversation, he deliberately, without shame, wanted me to suffer.

Again, all words coming from his mouth. Just random voices coming from his mouth.

Looking from another angle, I do realized how silly it is.

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But then, I also realized, I might be in the same boat as him... in the case of jealousy and sensitivity.

I find it very annoying when I see b*tches showing themselves off on FB. Of course, I am not stupid enough to be bitter on FB. For example: When I see the B writing, "Look at my post-pregnancy body, oh so fat!" tagged in a super tight dress pic. It doesn't immediately changed me into a fat whale. Those writings won't change anyone's body. Why do I feel jealous and annoyed? WHY???!!!

I am totally aware of my feeling, I just can't help it.