Sensitive Me...

I have been feeling restless of late. Something has been seriously troubling me. Oflate I have become very sensitive to comments and criticism (not that I was not before). But earlier, I used to take them in my stride and laugh at those comments too if I had really been funny or stupid. I remember the discussion when couple of my friends at Dell were having about the then impending Good Friday. Without thinking twice and engrossed in sipping the juice, I asked what day of the coming week was Good Friday? Oh boy, how they mocked at me. After that incident, they used to call out to me as Ms Good Friday!

I have always been the one who have argued that joke/comments/constructive criticism should be taken in the right spirit and one should not feel offended by that (Since it came from one of the sensitive sillies in the group, my friends used to say its probably right). These days it has become an altogether different story. I feel that I have become too vulnerable to comments/criticism. While I was in India, I used to take the criticism at work from my team lead/manager, criticism from appa, comments from friends in my stride. Maybe now that I am far away from home and my mom that I sense a feeling of weakness within. Sigh!