If you cry, I'll smack you...

Do you know what irritates me? People who are too sensitive.

I actually used to be a bit of an over-sensitive person. I used to worry a lot about what other people thought, and if someone critisied me I always took it to heart and sometimes even cried. However, I'm grateful to my mom who always told me, "Take it like a man and toughen up." Now I can withstand almost any barrage of biting comments (or at least I'd like to think so).

Now that I've toughened up, one of the things that angers me the most is overly-sensitive people. I can't even be blunt and say what I think without having to worry about stepping on someone's toes. It irritates me to no end when people get offended by the slightest thing. I know, I know, I shouldn't be one to talk, yet I can't help but be annoyed.

The other day I was talking to a friend, who shall be called A, and she told me that she was incredibly angry at this man who helps at school. He had been working on some strenuous work around the school and had seen my friend A and her friend S sitting and talking on a bench. He passed by and on doing so, told S that he shouldn't sit so much because he would break the bench. He said so jokingly but A and S were so offended that they shunned him.

Alright, maybe the man didn't realize that he would offend them. He was only kidding. Yet it annoyed me when A told me how they were so angry. Almost everyone in school criticizes and makes fun of the poor man and yet they are so offended when he jokes around with them. S's friends say much worse things about S and he never feels offended.

These sort of things make my stomach burn and just hearing this makes me feel angry. Maybe I'm being too tough on people or maybe I'm just stupid, which is always a possibility. But sometimes I wish others would "take it like a man".