Criticisms

Yes, you can choose to take them any way you like. In a box with a fox or in a tram with a ram.
Ohhh ice cream!
any which way though, I know that i personally try to take criticisms constructively, and yes, sometimes it is hard not to take some of them offensively. But I personally would not be getting through life well at all if I did not listen to and consider many of the things people say. I am not saying take every little thing to heart ya know? You need to have the confidence to still hold your own personality in the face of some criticisms, but you also need not be so confident that you are ignorant and ill tempered to every criticism that takes place.
I definitely would encounter a lot more negative situations if I did not take criticism well. While its easy to take criticism and absorb it from a teacher, boss or parent, why should it be so hard to take it from a friend? My best friend had told me a while back that he just didnt like hanging out with me anymore for whatever reason. I then simply went and hung out with him while also taking time to self reflect and see what I could do so we could both have fun.
While that definitely hurt a bit in the moment, I had to consider his perspective and understand that indeed I was not a fun person at the time and considered what it was that I was or was not doing. At the same time though I had to express some of my own opinion on how I wasn't completely happy with what he was doing. That's where we compromised, and we are doing well now. So please do take it from me as a constructive criticism, let your mind float out of your own world on occasion, consider how others feel about what you are doing or saying. Then maybe you will find more of yourself, so then maybe others will find more of you.