Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.