I'bve had one very strange incident which I still cannot understand.
It was during my training and we (or class) had to prepare and perform a presentation.
I did mine, and received critics.
However, what I still don't understand - and tht has nothing to do with "skin" or not - was my reaction towards that. I feeled that I had failed.
Was that a marked presentation? If I do a marked presentation, I always do it for the teacher and don't give a dog biscuit about the rest. I get a good mark? Good! I get a bad one? I don't care, I did my best.
If it's not marked, I care even less: I won't get a bad mark so why to break if someone doesn't like your work?
I realise you must've put a lot of work in your presentation if the critics left you devastated but you must get used to that. The public in general is stupid. It's obvious, logical and sooner or later you'll understand it.
They brag for innovation but when the innovation comes, they run in fear.
Example: Giordano Bruno, Richard Wagner, H.P. Lovecraft, Mozart, Chuck Berry... I can site on and on but you get the point. I cannot see your presentation, maybe it's not good. Maybe it is good, but nevertheless: remember the Wizard's First Rule®: People are stupid.
And winterfox: I agree with Lucretia: many "writers" can't read. I don't mean they have insufficient knowledge of the alphabet, but I mean they are unable to read; after they wrote, they simply cannot read what they wrote and see what's wrong.
