HSP: Three letters, infinite meanings. If you’ve heard someone refer to themselves as an HSP, they consider themselves a Highly Sensitive Person. In all walks of life, you’ll come in contact with HSPs. We’re all sensitive in some way or another–some people are simply more sensitive than others. Who is a Highly Sensitive Person? “Someone who experiences acute physical, mental,…
Merriam-Webster defines empathy as: “The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.” To simplify, empathy is one’s ability to understand and share another person’s feelings. Being able to…
This is the kind of Santa Claus story that warms the heart, because the truth is, everyone can be Santa Claus. Enjoy! The Santa Claus Story I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit my Grandma. My brother shattered my world by dropping the bomb: “There is no Santa Claus,” he jeered. “Even dummies know that!” Upset, I…
In life, we must do the right thing even when no one’s watching. As Mark Twain rightly says, “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Rather than ramble on about why do the right thing, here’s a lovely poem titled Making Sarah Cry by Cheryl L. Costello-Forshey, whose poems have appeared in the Chicken Soup…
The poem “A Stranger Passes By” is such a poignant example of how we are sometimes guilty of taking our loved ones for granted and skip showing them the courtesy they deserve. I remember, more than a decade ago, my son asking me why we are always so particular about saying “sorry” or “thank you” to strangers when we are…