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Why The Sensitive Inherit The Earth
I’ve spent my life being told I was too much. Too sensitive. Too concerned about the whole. Too focused on problems that weren’t “mine” to solve. Like all those born with heightened empathic awareness, I couldn’t turn off my connection to the whole even if I tried. Encouraging me to be different was a waste of their time. I never had a choice to be anything else and I knew in my soul this was not a weakness. This was the key to understanding and surviving what comes next.
My life mirrors the patterns I’ve observed repeatedly in families and communities across cultures. The empathic children, those who naturally think in terms of collective well being, are often scapegoated or dismissed. While their more self-focused siblings are rewarded and promoted as “practical” and “successful.” I grew up with this in my own family. Where my deep concern for others was treated as a personal liability while those who focused on individual gain were celebrated.My mother even told me I deserved to be exploited for caring too deeply. Each time I heard it I was hurt. But looking back now I am thankful. She was freeing from the need to earn her love and approval. What she and our entire society has failed to understand is that the capacity for deep care and holistic vision isn’t a weakness, but an advanced form of intelligence essential for species survival.
