Dear pinksunset:

I found nothing about in your post is “petty and pointless.”

I would like to communicate with you about your post/s for a little while, back and forth. Your post requires more than one simple reply, I believe.

To start, I would like to ask you (I am very curious): regarding your question: “do I need to harden up to the ways of the world?” –

How would you be like if you were “hardened up to the ways of the world”? How would you behave if you were hardened up in regard to the friend and otherwise?

Did anyone tell you in the past to harden up to the ways of the world?

anita