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I kind of need someone to talk to about my.. current situation, preferably someone who won't be too judgemental...
It makes me uncomfortable too.Oh boy...
This thread kind of makes me uncomfortable. I'm a sensitive person but I don't like being coddled and told that it's ok to be excessively sensitive and needy.
I see it as a personal weakness, it's something that holds me back from growing and I'd honestly rather be stronger and more resilliant emotionally.
Major props to the whole "imagining your needs being met and feeling a sense of wholeness" explaination though. That is soooo accurate.
Precisely. And remember, sensitivity is only negative if all you see is the negative. There are two sides to everything, and the key to a happier life is to minimize the negative side, and maximize the positive.Do not despair for sensitivity, be thankful. As heavy as this gift can be to bear, it was given to us for a reason
This is so beautiful. Thank you.I thank
God made, god made a twig,
so I could tie a wreath.
I thank, I thank for pain,
that teaches me to ask.
Thanks, thanks for the failure,
that will teach me diligence,
so that I, so that I could bring a gift,
though I hardly have any strength left.
Thanks, thanks, thanks.
Thanks for weakness,
that teaches me humbleness,
humbleness, humbleness for joy,
humbleness without submission.
Thanks, for tears I thank,
that will teach me feelings,
to those living, who, to those living who complain
and cry for empathy.
Thanks, thanks, thanks.
For yearning, for yearning for beauty
I thank for ugliness,
for that battle of
love and hate.
For sweetness, for sweetness of falling asleep
I thank for weariness,
I thank for ignition of fire
and bubbling of weir.
Thanks, thanks, thanks.
I thank for thirst,
that betrayed weakness,
I thank, I thank for anguish
that will refine art.
For that I love,
though fear clutched my heart,
ewe lamb, I thank you,
you didn't die for nothing.
Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks.
Thank you for your post. @SilverFalcon’s one as well.Precisely. And remember, sensitivity is only negative if all you see is the negative. There are two sides to everything, and the key to a happier life is to minimize the negative side, and maximize the positive.
If you're a sensitive soul in an insensitive world, change the world. Or rather, change your immediate reality. I've found a lot of truth in the saying "we create our own reality".
I used to be the same way, would have given anything to be "normal", and so I subjected myself to the things normal people did. Like watching the news every night, subjecting myself to horror and gory movies (cause all guys like that, right?), going to rowdy parties getting drunk, etc. All it did was make me more depressed, and hating myself even more. Until one day I realized the problem wasn't me being sensitive, it was me trying to be Insensitive.
So I stopped watching the mainstream news, opting for media that actually catered to the things I find interesting. I stopped watching and listening to things that upset me. And guess what? My life wasn't poorer for it, quite the opposite. The beauty of today's world, is that we now have choices.
When I grew up, we only had one tv channel (yes, I'm old :gentleman, and so whatever was on that channel, and whatever our parents and friends would talk about, was our whole world. And if we didn't fit in that world, then there was something wrong with us. Nowadays, there are thousands of worlds out there, you just need to find the ones that fit you.
That doesn't mean you should cocoon yourself, there are always going to be things in this world that hurt us sensitives. But it is possible to reduce the amount of things that hurt us, and when you do, you will be better equipped to deal with the things you can't avoid.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, there is a better life out there for us, and that life starts with admitting and fully accepting that we ARE sensitive. And screw what the world thinks about that.
Or try this: you're a penguin in Africa. You can either sit around in the sun like all the "normals", waiting to die of heatstroke, or you can hijack a freighter and sail to Antarctica, somewhere you belong..