Sensitivity- From the week

 

I feel super excited as I wind up this week. This issue of sensitivity stirred many souls and brought forth some really interesting perspective. When some felt that it is natural to feel touched when there is so much happening in the world.  Unless we share the pain, we are not humans. Some comments made me think about the kind of stuff we are busy with which digresses us from feeling passionate about the world as a whole. Who has the time or the energy to involve in what is wrong with the world?

 The reason I took this topic was to gage an understanding of the emotion around sensitivity, to get the conversation rolling. I was successful to some extent because I was able to get some discussions going on the subject. The first blog was just an introduction to the week, a preview of sorts.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/sensitivity-certain-uncertainty.html

My research on sensitivity often took me to the concept of HSPs or highly sensitive person coined by Elaine N Aron in her book Highly Sensitive person- How to thrive when the world overwhelms you. I felt that it is not just a personality type, it is bigger than that. It a sociological make. That is what my blog are we oversensitive aimed at proving. We are a sum of our experience and our sensitivity is a part of it.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/are-we-oversensitive.html

My aim here was to create a link between pedagogy and sensitivity. The educational institution and the education system as a whole should be trained to create open-minded individuals who are capable of asking questions.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/c an-sensitivity-be-taught.html

I have tried to establish the role of authority as a decisive factor in affecting sensitivities. Insensitive leaders lead to insensitive followers.  Plus it is important that one realizes the origination of biases and affects one may have from it.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/sensitivity-sensibility-two-sides-of.html

 This blog was all about where does insensitiveness come from, does it come from not caring, or is it side effect of too much work or the ostrich effect one might say. I realized it was a bit of everything a personal reason, an environmental reason and obviously a psychological one. That is what this blog has tried to ascertain.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/why-insensitivity.html

As I connecting dots for this week on sensitivity I realized that if it weren’t for existing sensitivity in the world, I will not have found support or would not have been able to heal. Despite the sensitivity crisis, I think it is a wonderful world.

https://nupurdwivedipandey.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-wonderful-world.html

Insensitivity, another name for prejudice and bias. Hold yourself accountable, because it is time we do so. A father with daughters needs to think hard before bashing women empowerment, what you sow you shall reap. Sow wisely. Think about the future that you want for your children.