Sensitivity

I really needed a Nick Drake icon. And now that I have, like, a zurbillion icons to play with, I went and created one just for the occasion.

So I returned my latest book to the library and checked out another one--The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron.

I read it while taking MARTA down to the High Museum to catch the Gates of Paradise (well, as it turned out, three selected panels from said Gates) and after taking in a bit of culture, I took the train back to my car, went home and spent the next several hours reading the rest of the book.

As I just posted elsewhere, I feel like I found the unified field theory of my personal universe.

I mean, yeah, anybody reading this who knows me at all is probably thinking "Highly sensitive? No duh!" But, seriously, this book gave me some amazing insights into how I act, how I react and even explains things like the clinical depression I spent over ten years of my life getting treatment for.

A lot of what I've dealt with I've ascribed to introversion. That may still be part of it, but viewing it through the lens of sensitivity has clarified things immensely.

I'm still sort of digesting it all, and will probably blather at length about it in future entries. But I feel like today is some kind of turning point in terms of figuring out where I am now and how to go forward from there.

Today I took pleasure in looking at some marvelous art at the High.

Today I learned a lot of things about highly sensitive people.