You're Not Dramatic, You're Just Sensitive, (& That's Okay)

  I am sensitive, and I'm tired of apologizing for it. Me being sensitive causes a lot of issues in my day-to-day life, but the older I get and the more of life that I face, I realize that me being sensitive is just a part of who I am as a human being.

  Being sensitive allows me to appreciate things more. It allows me to stop and think about what I am saying. It allows me to feel emotions deeper, and to not only sympathize, (understand that someone is in pain), but to empathize with them, as well, (meaning that I'm able to put myself in their shoes to try and understand what they're going through).

  While it's true that I am sensitive, I am confident in the fact that I am no-less of a strong person. I know that I am fully capable of doing whatever it is that I set my mind to. While I may tend to take things to heart a lot more than someone else who may not feel things as deeply as I do, I shouldn't let that hold me back from anything in life.

  I feel like most people associate 'being sensitive' with 'being weak'. To me, being weak means giving-up. Of course, there are moments where you should give yourself a break, but you should never stop trying. It's completely healthy to bring yourself to a halt when you know you've hit your breaking point to regain a new perspective, reset, find a new plan, and then restart, but you should never stop trying. With all of that being said, being sensitive, I feel like, should never be associated with being 'weak' or 'giving up'. 

  I cry a lot. I don't like to cry in-front of people, I go to a private area and just have a good cry session when the need arises. Crying doesn't make me weak, it just means that I feel things deeper and tend to spend a lot more time inside of my own mind thinking long and hard about how I feel on certain subjects that have been brought to my attention. By the time that I've finally given my answer on a question, it's likely that I've spent plenty of time and energy on my end conclusion.

  If you are someone who is blessed, (not cursed), with the gift of sensitivity, find ways in-which you can use it every single day, rather than apologizing for it and hiding it.

  Being sensitive means that you get to see the world on a deeper, spiritual level. You're able to speak from the deepest parts of your mind when you're around people that you trust. Being sensitive is the unique ability to see the world in its rawest form and to feel it as heavily as it should be humanly felt.

  I've found that once I started to accept that part of myself, it became less of a burden and I began to view it more as an incredible piece of my soul, and I refuse to apologize for it anymore.

  kati