Understanding your sensitive self
Even as a child, this being “too sensitive” had often left me feeling as if the world was too much for me. It was too big, too large, too hurtful. One of my earliest memories is of walking to a neighborhood Delhi market with my naani (my maternal grandmother) for some errands she had to do.
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I had this interesting experience with someone recently that got me thinking about how people react to the word “sensitive.” I went to an event recently where there were a bunch of other writers.
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Enough has been coming up for me a lot in the past few months. What’s enough? How do I feel enough? How will I ever be happy if I am always striving and never doing and being enough?
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Mahatma Gandhi’s was born 150 years ago, this day today, on October 2, 1869. One of my earliest associations with him is of my naani, my beloved maternal grandmother, telling us kids, “Mahatma Gandhi used to say “Apna Kaam Khud Karo” which loosely translates to the fact that we should all be self-reliant and take personal responsibility.
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Do you ever feel like you have two people inside you? One is stepping on the accelerator and the other one is pushing the brakes.
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