Sensitivity, The Most Elegant Dress Of Intelligence
My sensitivity gives me away. If my tears escape and fall down my face in front of someone I feel vulnerable. If I give you a hug, there are more people and you reject me, I feel very small. If I kiss you and you avoid my kiss, I feel that I should not show my feelings.
But the sensitivity towards another human being, towards another animal, towards music, towards the beauty of a painting or a sculpture, is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of the intelligence of each one of us, for that reason we do not we should never be ashamed of who we are and show our feelings.
People with high sensitivity
There are people who react very sensitively to their environment. They are able to understand everything that happens, they observe very carefully and sometimes make other people’s feelings and emotions their own. Highly sensitive people have some characteristics that define them as the following:
Sensitivity to criticism
A criticism of a person with high sensitivity can hurt them, because they are people who are very affected by the negative opinion of others and can feel bad. But that should not prevent them from being criticized constructively, with intelligent comments or opinions.
Sensitivity to environments and places
A person who is characterized by his sensitivity notices any small detail in each environment, a smell, a color, a sound. Very loud sounds, places with a lot of people, usually annoy them or cause discomfort.
On the other hand, he has a particular delicacy and his capacity for observation makes him especially appreciate the beauty of a place, the tranquility, the soft sounds.
They enjoy moments of solitude
People with a high level of sensitivity need moments to enjoy themselves alone, to reflect on their existence, to ask themselves questions and to see the little things in their life alone.
They get involved when something they are passionate about
If a person with great sensitivity is passionate about something, their degree of involvement is very strong and they usually transmit that enthusiasm to other people around them, because passion is contagious. In this way they transmit very positive feelings to others and enjoy every second of life.
They give themselves to others
A highly sensitive person is usually empathic, identifies with other people and learns to put himself in their place. They are usually people who help others and care about what happens to the people around them.
They have a great imagination
A sensitive person tends to stay absorbed looking at a landscape, a work of art, the beauty of a person … They tend to have a great imagination and let themselves be carried away by their thoughts, for that reason they sometimes need solitude, to be able to fully feel all their dreams and your ideas.
Sensitivity and intelligence
Sensitivity towards beauty, towards people, towards places, towards what surrounds us is usually a characteristic of intelligent people. In this sense, some studies have shown that gifted adults have shown great sensitivity at the same time, due to their better aesthetic capacity and also to the fact that they have felt different at some point in their life.
It is necessary that as humans we are sensitive to our suffering, to the suffering of other people. Without sensitivity we will not be able to face problems and find solutions. We tend to let day-to-day problems invade our minds, but it is important to find a moment for ourselves and to be able to sensitize ourselves to our deepest selves and to others.
Sensitivity is one of the manifestations of intelligence, of our way of seeing and enjoying the world, for this reason it is necessary to let it invade the pores of our skin, let a smile invade our face or a tear slide down it , in short, feel.
