Snowflakes

I am increasingly beginning to believe that the term "snowflakes" can't be applied to just thin skinned college kids, which is where it started. There are thin skinned fragile people who are 80, there are thin skinned fragile 19 year olds. There are religious people who can't handle hearing anything negative about their religion and their are atheists who go into fits of sputtering rage when you say you believe in God.

There are a whole bunch of reasons why people act thin skinned. Some of it is immaturity and a lack of real world experience. Living in the real world provides you with experience. The more you experience life, the more you realize that your own troubles (for the most part)  are truly a "hill of beans", to quote Casablanca. Acting like a snowflake and getting upset and offended all the time shows many things but to me, it's always showed a lack of real life experience more than anything else.

We all have our snowflake moments. For some of us it's hearing someone say something negative about our favorite band. For others it's hearing that someone likes Trump or Sanders while we don't. It's very rare indeed to meet someone who never gets offended, after all it's human nature to take offense at some things. We should all try to look inward and see the inner snowflake in us and try to make it tougher. Of course, like all advice it'll be ignored by the people who need it most.