Pakistani actress Navin Waqar has opened up about her struggles with trolling and revealed how she learnt the hard way that people tend to show their true colors in dire times.
In a recent podcast with Sidra Iqbal, the Humsafar famed actress revealed how she dealt with trolls online. Waqar opined that “people love watching somebody fall from grace. They enjoy people watching take that dive.” The actress added that people are amused to watch somebody get ”defamed.”
Navin Waqar on dealing with trolls
“In that sense,” Navin Waqar said. “Yes, we are a very judgmental society.”
“We do not hear both sides of the story. They think they know it all by hearing one side. They don’t know what the other side of the coin looks like,” she added.
The star opined that people enjoy milking out gossip for their amusement and aren’t curious to look at the entire picture. “They keep spreading the news over and over again until it’s global.”
When the host asked how she finds the “strength” to deal with strangers that already have an opinion of the star, Navin Waqar said, “Initially, it was very hard and I for the longest time could not take it.”
“I was sensitive and let things get to me and cry about it,” she furthered. But then she had enough of the trolling. “They don’t even know me. I don’t know these people, they’re randoms,” she stated.
Explaining how she came to disregard trolls, Waqar said that she slowly but gradually learnt to understand that these people may have had their biggest achievement by commenting, and call it a day. “I don’t pay heed to it, I don’t pay attention to it anymore,” she said.
She went on to call the trolls “faceless people ” with “zero presence” in her life.
At the end, Waqar shared learning how “everything that goes up must come down. That’s the law. It’s how you hold yourself together, it’s how you represent yourself when you have a downfall.”
She added that one mustn’t expect from people. “I have zero expectations from people I know,” she said excluding family and friends since they’re a “different scenario.”
Navin Waqar on learning from downfalls
Speaking of realizing who is the realest around you, Waqar said, “You get to know who is in your corner when you’re going through adverse times.”
“Everybody who seems to cheer you on, they disappear the second something horrible happens to you,” she added. “I know people who to pretended to be sweet and sympathetic to me.”
“In our society, nobody likes being wrong. We don’t want to accept our mistakes,” she added while assuring that it is ”okay” to be mistaken sometimes. “We’re humans after all. If you backtrack on what you said, then there’s nothing wrong with it.”
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