Taking on Chastisement

I USED TO GET CHASTISED by others for being too dramatic.  Got this with negative fusillades often.  This befuddled me.  But one day I realized how many idiots and morons I had come to know.  My existence was a torpid modern day version of Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair.'  I am more gutsy now and I don't let the mean clowns bother me.  I am not a scared little kid anymore.  Years ago I read the James T.Farrell book, 'Studs Lonigan' and therefore now I have achieved a state of more mental emancipation.