Emotional Awareness

Some people are emotionally self aware and others are not. One benefit of emotional self awareness: Some people, no, all people, are naturally sensitive to differing degrees. Every person's feelings can be hurt in many different ways. An emotionally self aware person says "I am sensitive. My feelings are hurt. I am not going to let it ruin my day." If a person takes everything to heart he or she will walk around with limitless pain and hurt. One of the gifts I have been given is that aforemementioned  awareness [or so I believe]. People hurt my feelings quite often. Sometimes they know and sometimes they don't. Often people think they did but really didn't. Certain things "get me" and certain things don't and I don't publicize what does and what doesn't. Recently I got "hit" twice so I sat myself down and said "Don't be putty in other people's hands. If you are, you will be an אומלל" [wretched nebuch - I speak to myself in a mixture of English and Hebrew with some Yiddish and Aramaic and words I made up sprinkled in]. 

I am telling you this so that you do the same:-). 

Love

Me:-)