sensitivity: classic or dud?

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So my friend shows me an email from one of his friends. It is rambling and full of poetic language and wild emotion. "Oh yes," I tell him, "I had friends like that. I stopped keeping in touch with them." Are you one of those sensitive people? Are your friends? Can you deal?

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think of myself as senstive. I like it . I have trouble being buddybuddy with cold rationals.

― anthony, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THis reminds me of an aesop's fable

"THE TWO POTS A River carried down, in its stream, two pots, one made of Earthenware, and the other of Brass. The Brass Pot was disposed to be social. "Since We are companions in this way, let us be friendly," he said. "In union is strength. Though we are carried away against our will, it is of no use to repine. We may yet see much good." But the Earthen Pot said, "I beg you not to come so near me. I am as much afraid of you as of the river; for if you do but touch me ever so slightly, I shall be sure to break." Equals make the best friends.

I think I am the clay pot

― Mike Hanley, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sensitive people are fine, it's "sensitive" people I have a problem with. Fuck off and stop blithering about Austen's inner soul. How many *#$@) precepts will I have to endure with these people? Here endeth the rant.

― Dave M., Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like being an asshole to certain others (and picked the right job for that kinda thing). But I don't like it when others act like assholes to me.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Sensitive' people = usually in touch with THEIR own feelings, gauge their usefulness to your life accordingly

― dave q, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What the poster formerly known as Tarden said.

I'm not a sensitive type person, I'm the "rambling lunatic that most people back away from slowly" type person. Hence I invariably seem to attract sensitive people who like to pretend that they'd like to save me, but in truth, they only hang around me because I make them look less neurotic by comparison.

― Kate the Saint, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's not why I hang around you, Kate! Anyway, I'm very sensitive indeed, but hide it beneath a cool as ice exterior. Maybe.

― Paul Strange, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm...I appear to be a person of a sensitive nature. and I used to like people like that a lot, but now there pretension just pisses me off as they are too idealistic and self-righteous, hence, IMHO, not in any way mature enough to cope with the big bad world.

Bill

― Bill, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll test that theory, Paul, by randomly abusing your sensitive soul and seeing if Kate jumps in to defend you or assist me. ;-)

I am not a New Age/Stuart Smalley sensitive, thanks. I am a curmudgeon with a mushy interior, though prone to emotional fuck-ups that can hurt others. Oh well.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That seems like me. Who said i am a cynic because the world disappoints. Thats how i feel.

― anthony, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have sensitive teeth, does that count?

― Pete, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete, you have destroyed your unbreakable image. Sensitive teeth are rubbish.

― Emma, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in life, a classic. nothing like a good bit of self-absorbed melodrama to add some tragic-romantic excitement to your life. high school poetry is also a classic.

insofar as it inspires mumbly adult-indie guitar bands, a dud.

― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

Revive, because I think oversensitivity is a major dud. I'm tired of feeling hurt and insulted by things that I know probably shouldn't upset me, but I can't stop feeling that way. I don't know if that's really sensitivity or touchiness though.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

dud as to the bad, classic as to the good.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

*rereads old part of thread* I identify as a curmudgeon! And the personal situation of other ILXors was...different then. And a classic Hanle y story.

I suppose thinking about it more that my earlier self-description can be modified, I do sometimes feel oversensitive as well overly self-critical, I suppose. Hm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a "sensitive" friend once. Telling her to fuck off remains one of the best decisions I've ever made.

― pingu, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck off.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

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