Life is a play or a game - any which way just Enjoy!
Depending on which school of thoughts you come from, some like to compare life to a game and others to a play. If you like to see you life to a game, enjoy the challenges and tournaments in life! Like the trials and tribulations in life you will have many opponents, sports injuries, drug screens, etc. and always to maintain the sportsmanship qualities of Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Kelly Holmes, etc. enjoying the game and doing your best!
At some time we may have experienced being sore losers and having the dissatisfaction of thinking you have been cheated of a good game. Life is too short to waste on wondering whether the ball hit the white mark or the umpire called foul even though you know you are right. Well the cliché says life is never fair and we have to learn the virtues of patience, tolerance and determination.
If you see life in the metaphor of a play, act the best you can as who you really want to be and that is to 'Scito te ipsum' - Know yourself regardless of the critics and comments... for today we may be in the marketing product life cycle term of a 'rising star', a 'cash cow' and the next a 'dog'. You as in the role of you will only exist once in this universe regardless of whether you believe in reincarnation or not. You are uniquely you and no matter what people like to say, just do what you think is best for your own personal growth whether physically, emotionally or spirituality.
Ultimately we all have to face our final match or last show, and everything that may have seemed important to us now will be returned to mother earth for recycling or kept in some museum for posterity!
Like everyone else we have been called names - good, bad and ugly. So what? Some we deserve whilst others no, I believe we should reach to a stage in our life where we can countercheck ourselves with a good self esteem and honestly evaluate whatever comments objectively and ignore the irrelevance. Like mistakes done, learned from it and then brush them aside to move on to greater heights and in the wise words of Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth President of the United States (1901-1909).
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."