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“SENSITIVE PEOPLE NEED TO STAY CLOSE”

28 June 2022

Tempo di lettura: 3 minuti

A dear friend said this some time ago, right when the funeral of a person who died by suicide was being celebrated, a very sensitive person, precisely.
He said this while talking about the fact that it is complicated to be in the world if you are the one who carries the sensitivity that doesn’t know prejudice, that doesn’t contemplate boundaries or individualism, that moves the love of diversity, that doesn’t feel the need to label or judge. It is complicated, for sensitive people, to be in the world, because on a daily basis they are exposed to social interactions that feed on hatred, competition, indifference and enemies to be put down. Those who are sensitive are more exposed to the risk of isolation from this world, especially in the most difficult times. And this is why sensitive people need to stay close: because they are aware that by communicating we act, and we can change the world through actions, stay united to empower each other.
Sensitive people know empathy, they practice caring for themselves and the world around them. It is difficult to find involvement in hate speech and stereotypical reasoning, among sensitive people. Cultivating sensitivity and empathic relationships is the only solution we have to be able to save the world destroyed by hatred, cynicism, and individualism.
Sensitive people cannot “move on” when they come into contact with the insensitivity and superficiality of our times. They can pretend not to listen, or not to see, but they cannot avoid feeling pain and discomfort;
sensitive people listen to the pain of others, they don’t reduce everything to a useless and empty “think of those worse off than you.”
sensitive people make a big deal when a minority suffers attacks from a majority that violates their rights;
sensitive people don’t think that age determines usefulness, and that an elderly person is a problem to deal with;
sensitive people do not deride elderly people who do not know how to use a smartphone, because they may be the same people who taught them how to wipe their asses and noses;
sensitive people do not consider love for an animal inappropriate, because they know that love is a spontaneous feeling that does not follow rules set by others;
sensitive people have more questions than answers when they meet someone, because they know they are discovering a new world;
sensitive people welcome others’ fears and try to understand them, not to judge them;
sensitive people know that language is like a paintbrush that helps us in painting the world we live in, and they want to learn how to use it;
sensitive people never say ” those who say they want to suicide are not doing it, they just want to get attention,” because they know that these two statements are a push already from the cliff;
sensitive people do not compete with other people’s lives, because they enjoy their own;
sensitive people do not leave anyone behind, even if they have to slow down their own step;
sensitive people know which side to stand on, and it is never in the middle;
sensitive people do not forget, neither the good nor the bad;
sensitive people take care of the world they live in, because we don’t have another one;
sensitive people love reading, because ” those who read write the world”
sensitive people consume with awareness, because it is through example that change is born;
sensitive people, walk slowly and stop to observe, because the race is not always the best step;
sensitive people do not laugh at the young men and women who have the courage to fight for their future, but fight with them;
sensitive people must stay close together because, if one of them falls, it will be a soft fall instead of a scary leap into the deep;
sensitive people must hold each other tightly, to nourish each other’s sensitivities, in a movement that tends to infinity.