Hello @oceanbee
I feel you on this. I've been having a few difficult days of late myself and I know how it can be disheartening when you do all the right things and then you end up being messed around. I get called overly sensitive often and while it used to really bug me, I now take it as a compliment. It's a difficult thing to survive being sensitive in an insensitive world!
Take a break if you need it. My totally unsolicited advice here: Go somewhere and take some photos just to put up on your blog with no attachments to a photographic contest, do it for you and for the love of photography.
The dandelion photo is beautiful.
Hey @andrastia, thanks so much for your kind words. And your advice? Very sound. Many times I have done just that, go somewhere, alone and enjoy that time without thinking too much about online people or also IRL ones. I think you're right, the key is to just step away. Sometimes that is easy and sometimes it's harder to do.
I also think writing it off my chest here helped quite a bit. I think I have accepted that there will always be those that are greedy beyond my understanding, it is in our human nature and as humans, we are all very different.
Hopefully, things turned around for you and you found a way out of your difficult days.