All of us are anonymous royalty. Thoughts are idiosyncratic, feelings are universal. One criticism erases ten compliments. People give advice in order to make themselves feel better about another's situation. I'm still not finished with being young.
Emotion is important to learning because mistakes hurt.
Other people's hang-ups seem silly and unnecessary. Our own seem to be facts of life. The world is neither malignant nor benign. To imagine it is either is to inflate our own importance to cosmic proportions. The poor in spirit will always be with us.