Understanding your sensitive self
I started birdwatching last year, out of a growing impulse to connect with something deeper, something more rhythmic. In the space of a little more than a year, I feel like a new layer has been added to my life.
My world is now full of new sounds and ideas and textures.
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Sometimes, it happens that I start getting really interested in a topic that had seemed “obvious” before. That’s what happened recently when the term Inner Child started calling to me. And so, like I usually do, I ordered a bunch of books about it.
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We read Jenn Granneman and Andre Solo’s book Sensitive in the last edition of The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club. One of the things that stood out to me was when they talked about the close intertwining of emotional and physical sensitivity:
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I am a deeply feeling person. But I don’t wear my feelings on my sleeve.
In fact, I think many people who know me casually may not even think of me as emotional. It’s almost like I have an exterior of calmness. And that’s all they can see.
Inside, the weather could be anything.
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I have been thinking about happiness lately, and my mind jumped to: What’s the opposite of happiness?
And I think the opposite of happiness is trying to be someone you are not.
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