Criticism is easy but Contribution is Rare.

A famous painter wanted honest feedback on his painting. So he displayed in the street his work without his signature on that with a note of request anyone may please mark with Cross (❌) the mistake or error in it,if any.

Curious enough to see the mistake (if any!) in his painting, he, on the following day went to the street. The artist was disappointed to find his entire painting covered with crosses, the whole of the painting was thus more or less invisible.

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Dejected and with sunken heart, he went to see a friend from there and said to his friend that perhaps he was not talented as he thought himself to be.

The friend smiled and said to him-Don't lose heart. Criticising is a great source of enjoyment for both- the laity as well as the learned.

If you had disclosed your identity by putting your signature below that painting, nobody would have dared do so.

But that said, it is also a fact that criticism is easy. You will find critics many but not ones who correct or contribute are seen around generally.

If you don't believe me do the same excercise again with a request in the note that "The defects in the painting is earnestly requested to be corrected with the help of brush and paint kept in a bag hanging beside the painting.

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With the same curiosity the man went to see the"fate" of his work. 

To his utter surprise he found the painting untouched by any hand.

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Indeed! Criticism is easy 

                      But 

         Contribution is Rare.

Why? 

           - "Criticism demands little more than an opinion; contribution demands knowledge, effort, and responsibility. That is why critics are many, but contributors are few."

   ~R.R.Prabhakar.