WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SENSITIVE.
Some people are curiously proud of being sensitive. It seems to them to indicate refinement and delicacy. The truth is, however, that sensitiveness usually proceeds either from sickness or Irom selfishness. Sometimes the body is in an abnormal and irritable condition, and the mind is in sympathy with it. It is the sore eye that is hurt by the light. It is the sore foot that is always stumbling against the stones. In sound health neither the light nor the stones are noticed. And it is the sore mind that is always getting knocks and bruises. Words to which a well mind pays no attention stick in a sick mind like poisoned arrows.
Or else the sensitive, person is simply selfish. Every church, every society, every club has annual experiences with people who agree to serve at this or that, and they do serve for a time admirably. Then something happens; they miss the word of praise, or they are criticised, or they can’t have their own way, or nobody seems to pay any attention to them. And they stop. That makes it plain that they were not at work for the church, or for the cause, or ior the good of the people. They were working solely for the wages of praise. They believe themselves tp be sensitive, but they are only selfisfi,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1102, 29 May 1913, Page 4
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230WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SENSITIVE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1102, 29 May 1913, Page 4
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