You want happiness? Stop demanding the world cushion your fragile psyche.

I don’t understand the strange strawman that’s being set up and knocked down here. With its repeated usage of “you” and “your”, the author seems to be speaking to their audience; but then casting their audience into a dark light, a tangle of declarations that don’t apply to most people at all.

When you’re hypersensitive to criticism, it’s because you’ve conflated your fragile ego with your worth. You’ve mistaken your current position in the hierarchy for your eternal fate.

Like I said, a strawman. Who is this for? I guess those who are hypersensitive to criticism, who have specifically considered their eternal fate to be reflective of their current position “in the hierarchy”?

Stop catastrophizing. Your boss’s nitpicking, your partner’s sigh, the anonymous troll’s jab—these are not existential threats. They’re feedback. And feedback is the universe’s way of saying, “Hey, here’s a map to a better version of you… if you’re brave enough to read it.”

Yeah, that’s not how trolls work. Trolls troll for kicks, hoping to trigger people. Trolling does not present you with a “map to a better version of you”.

What a strange soliloquy