To the point. I basically get easily offended. If someone critizices my way of doing simple things I just explode inside. It makes me feel stupid, I feel I'm being called an idiot. And I know it's a straw man but still I can't help it. I try to ignore it, to substract relevance to it to the point where it becomes worthless but I guess I'm not strong enough. I started to believe strength was what people who have been through shit develop because they know what hard situations actually are and so they no longer care about trivialities such as being criticized or insulted; someone close to them died, maybe in a horrible way; they suffered a hard infancy, could be accompanied with lack of attention or even violence; some of them even witnessed closely a natural disaster etc. I always had a good life, Of course I've been through some shit as well but it's not even close to what I mentioned above and that leads me to think that's why I'm not strong enough. I would not want to go through more shit, of course, who would? There have to be more ways to be strong. This whole no pain no gain mindset for non body building situations has to be put to rest, in my opinion. What do you guys think?
By the way, I'm seriously considering meditation as mentioned by @Praxis in a previous post, so yeah, I have an idea on how to handle this whole thing of being offended. Still, I would like to know your thoughts.
Cheers.