Making Sense of Sensitivity.

It occurs to me that those highly aware and sensitive people who feel every sting strongly and suffer frequently in consequence are usually judged to be weak. We want to ignore them, discard them, throw them off the train while the rest of us get on with being tough and driven to succeed.

But are we missing an essential point here? Life is a mysterious, seemingly unfathomable business, and how can we expect to get even close to understanding it unless we gravitate towards the centre and get burned by the heat at its core? Could it be that the sensitive souls out there are not weak at all, but merely closest to whatever life is about?