I Think I'm Overly Sensitive

I have to admit that I can't even watch a movie where a child is being hurt, never mind when starving children are being documented. I sometimes wonder if this intolerance of child abuse of any description is a natural instinct to ensure the welfare of our young, thereby ensuring the survival of our own species? Either way, a child's tears can reduce me to tears!

most of the people here are, however sensitivity like every trait is relative, but it is inevitable that everybody hurt and get hurt, and the impact of that will be relative too. also, you can't separate sensitivity from other traits of the person meaning that you can't label someone as just "sensitive" as they usually would be more sympathetic, attached, or even more jealous. so if you draw a line and put "extremely sensitive" on the right and "extremely insensitive" on the left, the middle would the "normal guy" but i think he would be more of a mediocre than average, personally I'd rather to be on the middle of sensitivity half of that line, which at least that is what i hope of myself.

How many times have you been told, "You're just too sensitive." ? I've heard it all my life. As if sensitivity is a bad quality. I prefer to focus on what that sensitivity brings into my life. Yes, I do get my feelings hurt easily. Like everything in life, I guess you have to take the bad with the good. And I can't watch those animal commercials on tv either.