Why are people so sensitive?

The problem with humans developing immunity to words, feeling pain or being hurt by words would mean they most likely would develop the same resistance to feeling happiness and joy. If we can’t feel pain, how would we know what happiness felt like? We would have no parameter to judge. Life would be very monotonous without the ability to feel and express different emotions.

I think the question should be how do we deal with our sensitivities. I think the answer to that question is more illusive. We need interaction with other people and we need to be vulnerable to pain to experience joy, so in my opinion there is no avoiding being hurt. I only know that with out that vulnerability, with out that willingness to risk being hurt by someone, we will never find happiness, or rather true happiness.

There is nothing wrong with being sensitive. We should turn that sensitivity around and treat others the way we want to be treated. We need to feel pain, but we also need to feel accepted and loved. I don’t want to be the one doling out pain, I’d rather be the one that increases peoples’ happiness, makes their life better for having known me.

The truth hurts…

Dear dannyboy, Well I am grateful for being sensitive to words. I can choose to internalize it when someone tells me I am doing a good job, or they love me. I can choose not to when they are negative and have no merit. It can be a very difficult process to learn to allow unwarranted words to roll of your back but with practice it’s possible. When we develop this technique we can also gage in ourself how to use words for good and not to hurt others. Sue…good luck

That’s kind of cynical. Because the price you pay for not being sensitve. which would be closing yourself off to other people., is far to high. When you close yourself off to feeling sadness and pain, you also close yourself off to the joys and blessings of this life.

i know like f and bi its crazy i h8 sensitive people i am a brick :)

Because they have feelings. And some are more dense than others.