Nathan Exposed: the naked truth about my gay life

One of the phrases that I’ve heard often in my life is “don’t take it personally” or “don’t be so sensitive”. For many years, I obviously thought there was something wrong with me. Otherwise, why would people try to get me to change?

Instead of asking someone to not be sensitive, you should turn around and say to that person “don’t be so INsensitive”. Really, the road works both ways. Why are we trained to show less emotion, or less sensitivity, when these are natural human emotions?

Many of us are born with a wonderfully complex set of emotions. As we get older, we are conditioned to turn them off or not express them. We are expected to internalize them, where they do damage to us instead. That seems unnatural to me. I don’t know who set these rules, but I’m not going to follow them just because I’m told to.

So more and more, I’m training myself to embrace the emotions I have. If something bothers me, I try to express it, even though it may seem awkward. It’s not always easy because it’s been ingrained into my sub-conscious that I should hide any emotion.

Humans were born with feelings. We’re not robots. So here’s to being sensitive. Cheers!

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Wed, Sep 12, 2007 @ 11:49 am | Filed in Life | Permalink 3 Comments

    People who say that sort of thing are the same sort of assholes who start sentences with “With Respect….”. Normally they mean nothing of the sort.

    Posted by Tom on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

      I totally agree. I hate it when some one tries to tell me I’m being overly sensitive and as you say maybe their being insensitive. Why do I always have to turn the other cheek. I know it’s the nice thing to do but when is it the other persons turn to do the same thing. I always have to be the person to do the “right thing” It just seems to be a huge on way street a lot of the time and it’s not fair. Whew I feel better :)

      Posted by TJ on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

        Not everyone grows up hiding their emotions but I sure did. I don’t show enough emotions to the point I think this sometimes bothers people.

        Posted by martini-dan on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 @ 9:24 pm

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