Being Thin Skinned

Thursday the 17th of July 2025 and you know there's something that I've kind of like realized right there's something that I've realized and it's something about kind of like being thin-skinned as opposed to kind of like being thick-skinned like of course I don't really have like

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the knowledge at my disposal to understand why some people are wired in this way and some people are not. But one thing I can say is that I wish I had a carried a thicker skin. I wish certain things didn't get to me and maybe some things

don't get to me and others do depending on the day or the week depending on what it is that I'm going through, et cetera, et cetera. But then again, at the same time, this is something that also makes me obsessed with my personal development and just kind of like developing myself and learning how to kind of like, you know,

take no for an answer, learning how to like deal with rejection, learning how to kind of like deal with setbacks and stuff like that right and really building up those experience points. Really and truthfully one of the things that I've realized about kind of like being sensitive and kind of like being emotional and having all of those things is the fact that the people who are effectively very thick-skinned, the

people that are very used to the cold, metaphorically speaking, they are used to the cold, metaphorically speaking. They are used to it because they have, in a way, just kind of like become accustomed to and become a part of, effectively, kind of like the habit of not giving a damn, the habit of not caring, and not caring too much about the other person,

whereas I still care. I care greatly. And effectively, the way I liken it is like, you know, effectively kind of like coming out of a room where the temperature was really hot and experiencing the shivers because it's quite cold outside, next to somebody who had been standing in the cold for however long, however long, however

length, however long the period of time was. And, you know, it's to say that effectively, kind of like the people that don't care, the people that don't give a damn, that they've just effectively switched off or they become numb to kind of like the heinous, kind of like characteristics of like human nature, at least in the capitalist or in the kind of like,

you know, Western, you know, in the Western kind of like aesthetic. Whereas, you know, with me, I still care. I still want people to do well. I don't necessarily need to do as well myself, but I want, suffering is something that I'm not quite used to. And yeah, that's something that I've learned to understand about myself.