Crocodile skin…?

CoffeeFirst
CoffeeFirst Scope Member Posts: 202 Empowering
in Coffee lounge
What in life has helped you develop a tougher skin? Or, maybe you have you always been like this and let things run off your back.

Whilst I’m not soft, I do still have a vulnerable side. Which one are you?

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  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,471 Championing
    That's a good question @CoffeeFirst :) I'm probably a mix of both. I don't have the thickest skin, but can let a lot of things run off my back. 

    Though this might sound odd, I think spending time on the internet during my early teenage years contributed to my thick skin. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but it did teach me quite a few life lessons I'd say!
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited August 2022
    Being threatened over a period of ten years helped me to develop a tougher attitude generally. It also made me study Buddhism and I’ve gained through doing that. 

    I was also in business some years before that and i experienced the rotten side of human nature first hand on many occasions. I even lost my house due to companies not paying their bills either at all or not on time. 

    I also lost my brother in law and then my sister when I was quite young, All these things toughen you up.
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    I'm quite tough thankfully, I lost my parents when I was 21 and 26, so had to just get on with things. There was no running back home, or leaning on parents. 
    Saying that, I had good inlaws, shame about their son  :# I've done alot of things by myself,  I'm not complaining or anything. Just way it is.
  • Cartini
    Cartini Online Community Member Posts: 1,107 Trailblazing
    I would say I`m quite thick skinned. 
    Over the almost 61 years I`ve been on this planet, I`ve experienced some incredibly unpleasant things.  Some of the "more pleasant" experiences are:
    Having a knife pulled on me when I was 12 in South Africa.
    Being bitten by a snake when I was 13 in South Arfica; thankfully it wasn`t a poisonous one but it still had quite a psychological effect.
    Being bitten several times by a baby baboon when I was 14 in Rhodesia (as it was then).  That b...dy thing didn`t like me.
    Going to Action Stations in the Falklands when I was 21, after just having written a letter to my then wife.  Fortunately that turned out to be a false alarm, but it still had an effect.
    Having a gun pulled on me in Italy when I was 24.
    I`ve had more personal experiences, all of which had a psychological effect on me but are not for sharing.
    Despite my experiences, those mentioned here and the those I`m not going to disclose, I`m still a "glass half full" person :)

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