Delicate fragile, soft and thin-skinned describes today's society to a tee. Not everyone, of course, but the populace in general. Personally I can take any number of discomforts in stride, but I am in love with my air conditioning. It runs around 9 to 10 months out of the year. I do not have heat so for the few months of coldish weather, we just deal with it. That being said, I do my best in the event a hurricane or tornado wipes out the power and I am a hot, sweaty mess lol.
We don't have to be martyrs, but we also don't have to be so sensitive to the world either. Small discomforts likely make small comforts, greater.