The world, as I see it, is a place for realists. Nature doesn’t care for our hopes and dreams, it deals with what’s here and now - the present.

In the present, there seems to be only a few states: entropy and decay.

If that’s true, then nature’s nature is to be insensitive.

If that’s true, how do those who are most sensitive thrive?

It’s difficult. I’m a sensitive human, and I find that my way to thrive is to acknowledge a few things:

1. What I feel about a thing is only truly important to me.

2. What I feel is not the same as what I perceive.

3. What I perceive is not necessarily what I know.

Therefore, when I feel especially sensitive about a topic or situation, I do the following to process and move on:

1. I make every attempt to label the emotion.

2. I acknowledge that it’s my emotion, and it’s important to me.

3. I seek to understand the situation. What did I see or notice just before I felt what I felt?

4. I determine what I I can do to prevent or improve the situation for myself and others.

5. I thank my feeling for me being the indicator I needed to make change happen.

I’m getting better at it. The goal is incremental progress.

I’m less stuck and paralyzed by my thoughts. Instead, I’m moving forward and making change happen. I’m improving my situation, and hopefully, the situation of others.

In an insensitive world, I’m leveraging my sensitive nature to improve what I can.

Give it a try.