Stay true to yourself, a lesson in fear
There's one thing undeniable about success. It's something we learn as a small child. It happens for instance when our kid brother tries to take away the thing that we always wanted (usually ends up with a kerfuffle. Then the thing is broken, and neither of us has it): the moment you have success, there's always someone who doesn't want you to have it, for whatever reason.
It is the one rule the gossip magazines (and the 24 hour news channels) are based on. They like nothing better than very famous people failing. The moment someone does, they spend all their air time on it, discussing it amongst themselves, inviting experts, inviting the people involved, milking it until there's nothing left to say about the subject.
It also goes on a much smaller scale. Everyone of us has had experiences with co workers who tried their best to railroad us, or we have had people saying very harsh things about us, without having any idea as to why that is.
The only thing that helps in this whole mess of responses, varying between envy, glee, fear and other layers, is to stay true to who you are, to your soul.
Your thoughts keep betraying you, telling you things that are completely untrue (I bet you have "I suck!" on repeat whenever someone manages to get through to you with their negativity). Your emotions keep betraying you (you really don't have to feel like you are worth nothing when something like this happens to you). The only one who always is on your side, and who will never betray you, is your innermost, sacred, eternal self. Your soul. As long as you stay true to it's lessons, it's values, nothing can harm you.
Not even the petty little fears that stick up their heads whenever something good or bad happens.
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