JOIN USA spiritual guru, in an edifying discourse, said, “Many people have come to me saying they are very sensitive and that they wish to overcome the problem as they feel being highly sensitive means feebleness of heart.
On the contrary, being sensitive is a part of goodness in humans, as callousness can’t co-exist with goodness. And to be a good human, it calls for a steely persona, as against being bad, which needs just a spineless mind.
“When you are sensitive, it also indicates that your feelings are still alive in you. In these modern times, with things happening in metronomic regularity, you find many who are virtual automatons bereft of inner feelings.
They have become so clinical that when you lock hands with them, you feel as though you are shaking hands with a dead branch!”
Incidentally, often, I too hear people around say how oversensitive they are because of which they keep cudgeling their brains over small matters.
A friend feels deeply flustered, as her generally genial-natured colleague hadn’t flashed his signature smile that day. An acquaintance feels terribly ruffled after being blasted by her bosses over a trifle dereliction in her duties.
A relative feels highly disturbed after a final showdown with her maid over her shoddy working ways and her abrupt termination of services. A schoolmate says she is sinking in sad mood after a spat with her spouse.
Well, do these instances reflect that the person concerned is truly sensitive?
Interestingly, if you scrutinise them, more than the sensitive aspect, what you notice is the ‘human ego’ that has been badly bruised and battered! For, all through we see that we are actually sensitive only to our own feelings, our own emotions and physical/mental problems.
So, what is true sensitiveness? Being truly sensitive is when we are sensitive to others’ feelings and emotions and sensitive nature. Also, being truly sensitive is when we always take care to see that even inadvertently we don’t utter/do things that may cause harm/hurt to people around us.
In other words, being sensitive doesn’t mean feeling all mushy when we watch soppy scenes in films or tele-serials. Instead, it means not only recognising people’s problems, but also doing our bit to alleviate them.
Apparently, we have to be sensitised to this particular aspect right from our younger days. So, no wonder it’s said, “The heart of education should be the education of heart”!