User blog comment:Silkmoth/Seething Envy/@comment-25085701-20170211193903

Here's the thing.

You have to care about yourself. When you don't, nobody else can give that to you. It's easy to look to others for validation of who you are, but when you do that, you subconsciously compare yourself to them, and find yourself wanting -- like you are doing.

We can tell you you're a good person every day, but it won't make you believe it. We can tell you that you're a helpful person on your own, but your mental editor says 'but I'm not as good as Lady Alys.'

I have news for you. Lady Alys makes mistakes like everyone else does; we all do. It's why we're editors, and why we never turn away new editors, because in the writing and editing field, 'an extra pair of eyes always helps.'

Tiers can take awhile to earn. The craft of writing is learned best by practice - and making mistakes to learn what works better. Nobody is perfect - but we're all good at making each other look close to it, because we watch each other's backs.

Don't ever see the rollbacks or corrections on top of your edits as criticism - just as a lesson that makes you better going forward.

Taldin (talk) 19:39, February 11, 2017 (UTC)