Sensitivity

The older I become, the more I realize that I have always been a sensitive human. I feel intensely, deeply. As my cousin likes to say, my heart is as big as Jupiter. I was born with the capacity to feel for you and me. The universe has blessed me with the strength to have empathy for all of us. And there is beauty in that. I was conditioned to believe that being sensitive was a burden. that I needed to acquire the skills to turn it off to protect myself. To accommodate others. I was convinced that feeling made me weak. But the more I come home to myself, the more I realize there is liberation in sensitivity. There is something so powerful about feeling your emotions to their fullest extent. There is magnificent wonder and relief when you give yourself the space to shed those tears.