You Don’t Need a Thick Skin — Just Ask This Sheep 🐑
- Gökçe Kutsal
- Apr 30
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 23
Living in Scotland has its perks.
As in, I get to see the cutest sheep on the road.
Some are so fluffy you can tell they’re due for a shearing soon.
Otherwise, the wool will get too heavy. Too uncomfortable for them to carry.
Which reminds me of a story…
There was a sheep who escaped a farm and lived in the mountains for six years.
By the time they found him, he’d grown 60 pounds of wool — that's 27 kilograms!
I mean, would you look at this fluffiness? And his name is Shrek 🤭
And get this:
Wolves could have tried to eat him…
But their teeth wouldn’t penetrate the FLOOF.
He didn’t survive by growing tougher.
He survived by growing softer.
And I think about that a lot when people say “You need a thick skin to handle criticism.”
Because you don’t.
Not in music. Not in life.
A thick skin just numbs you.
It dulls your sensitivity.
And sensitivity is exactly what makes music come alive.
What if, instead of armouring up, you softened into yourself?
What if, instead of shutting down parts of who you are, you let them breathe?
What if the very things you’ve been told are too much — the way you feel, express, interpret — are actually your greatest strengths?
It’s not about getting harder.
It’s about getting lighter.
More you.
And if you’re tired of feeling weighed down by what others expect you to be… let’s talk.
Always rooting for you,
Gökçe 💙
