Sensitivity

I started noticing some of the prejudices I had with sensitivity. I was surprised. In my mind, sensitivity was a weakness. Sensitive people — they cry and suffer a lot. Looks like I want to escape from this definition. I was completely wrong.

Glennon Doyle, the author of Untamed, puts it this way:

“The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.”

I am sensitive. I notice the suffering of others, and I want to make it better for them. I notice (some) problems in the world, and I want to help. I feel the pain in one's eyes, and I want it to go away. I was the 8-year-old praying for Bin Laden to stop killing.

Don't run away from sensitivity. Otherwise, you are running away from life itself. There is no other way of living fully, without noticing.

Leave the umbrella at home. No badge of honor to be insensitive.