Adam was a sweet 17-year-old who told me about a girl he liked — a girl who only kissed once.
What started as a simple story about teenage romance became a reflection on how easily we project our expectations onto others, and how doing so locks them — and ourselves — into patterns we never meant to create.
Welcome to Story Time: stories and events that help connect the dots.
Today’s story is about the elephant in the room. When I mentioned recently that I’m in the habit of naming it when I see it, I got an immediate response: “Me too!” “Geesh, same!” and “Yeah, and guess what, people don’t like that one bit!”
True dat! So let’s connect the dots on that, in this episode of Story Time: Pointing out the Obvious for the Oblivious.
Even when I was a kid, my brother was a handful. Which led to my parents invariably saying, “I know he’s the eldest, but why don’t you try and be the wisest.”
Over time that became code for: “We know it sucks. But it’s easier for everyone if you just suck it up.”
Hey! Let’s unplug with some stuff that doesn’t normally come up in conversations. I think my biggest struggle has always been not having anyone in my corner. With three extremely engaged awareness levels there were many ways in which a little HSP-Empath could be shut down. And people did. Unwittingly, inadvertently – and incessantly.