develop a thicker skin

I need to learn to take rejection/criticism better. I’m doing this by exposing myself more (hehe not in that way), basically putting myself in situations where I’m at risk to be rejected.

I have another online journal with a very select group of friends that I’ve come to know and trust in the 5 years it’s been open. Occasionally I make comments on their journals in return. Recently however I’ve made a couple of comments based on opinion and experience which have been deemed as inappropriate by people who aren’t even the journal owner in question. When did it become acceptable to flame someone in someone else’s personal journal?! Apart from feeling like this is wildly unfair it’s also NOT HELPING in thickening my skin!!

I don’t think this will ever be achieved because it does seem to be almost entirely dependent on my mood. Sure I regularly have confidence wobbles but how I deal with them can vary wildly from ‘eh, I’ll be fine’ to an endless spiralling down into the minutiae of my personality and the negative traits thereof.
I suppose the best method of success will be when I can shrug things off more easily when I’m in my most sensitive mood.

Generally I’m OK in real life, it’s on the internet I become a sensitive little shrew, and for what?! It doesn’t matter! The things that bother me most are rarely personal so just let them go…

Hmm, just spent two days crying over a stupid job which I really wanted and didn’t get. Don’t think I am really achieving this goal at the moment.

When it comes to love, rejection, friendship, many things I am far too sensitive. I take everything to heart.

I need to protect myself more and not let things get to me so much.