Defamation

“Never try to destroy someones life with a lie when yours can be destroyed by the truth……….”

Being around with this tough time of COVID where people have to face lockdowns quarantines and situations where people are in mental or emotional distress. I thought of talking about the word “Defamation” as this is something that we might normally face while we start leaving with our friends or move to a hostel away from our home.

What does the word defamation exactly means: Defamation is typically defined as a false statement someone makes about you, which they publish as a statement of fact, and which harms your personal and/or professional reputation or emotional distress. One can give their opinions or make statements which they believe are true maybe about politics, geography or history that won’t be a slander statement. There is a Defamation lawsuit that protects an individual from filing a case for false accusations.

Here I am not interested in going deep about the law but I just wanted to point to the certain fact that we all in our daily life may have faced a situation where we are falsely accused or picturized to prove innocense or for self boosting or to avoid a situation someone or a group. This is common not just between friends but also family we might also have boosted certain situation and elaborated it to acquire more attention or for fun. But this is not the case when we talk about a person. Consider the case where the person who is been wrongly picturized comes to know about this, how much mental distress the person may face.

The fact is that we cannot change a person’s attitude but we can change ourselves, just change the way we think instead of thinking or living according to what others are comfortable with life the way you want to live your life. There may be a thousand bows aimed with opinions against you but if you live your life according to your choice that’s where happiness lies, let others say about you, let them criticize you just enjoy the gossips.

“Ships dont sink because of the water around them. Ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let whats happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.”

– Jay Shetty