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Sensitive People Aren’t Flawed. They’re Just Misunderstood
There’s nothing wrong with you, even if the world doesn’t understand that
Every so often, I seem to need a day to just do nothing.
Today was that kind of day.
I spent the entire day doing stuff for me — watching interesting and enlightening documentaries, sitting quietly on the couch with a cup of coffee or tea doing absolutely nothing, and going for a slow evening walk in the dark.
In the past, I would have viewed this kind of a day as wasted time, and would likely have ended up beating myself up for accomplishing so little and being so lazy.
But today was not the day for that.
Today, I needed to rest. My mind, my body, and my soul simply needed space to breathe and to just be, without doing anything or rushing anywhere or being “busy.”
Take care of yourself, because no one else will (or can)
As I become more aware of how to care for myself and my personality traits of introversion and high sensitivity, I am also aware of how little these particular characteristics are valued in our society, and how much they are actually looked down upon by society in general.
