The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty , 1869
The other challenge to any intentional community -be it a town, city or village, is that our skills at social interaction have atrophied. As our lives got busier and our focus shifted to our work lives and our nuclear family, the rituals that nurture and sustain community relationships have fallen from our realm of habit.
For some HSPs, when they find the term HSP and learn that many of their experiences are part of the world of the HSP - they allow their emotional discomfort, social alienation and deep inner turmoil to be explained by this term. They see the HSP label as a kind of end to their journey - rather than the beginning.
Imagine if we reframed the reality of the hypochondriac. Instead, we could focus on the medical field that is blind to fields of energy and subtle awareness. We could speak about the highly sensitive nervous system of the patient. We could recognize the complaints of the “hypochondriac” as signs of an unusual giftedness. We could enroll these patients in training programs to help them learn to understand energy fields and to find ways to work with their subtle levels of awareness.
The late bloomer-
Late to speak~
Late to walk~
Late to find a career path~
Late to find love~
Late to marry ~
Late to have children ~
Late to succeed ~
Late…
So it seems to be about time or timing. Being a late bloomer is not to do things in the timing of the culture.
Yet, through a different lens, the late bloomer is weaving together the necessary threads to be ready, fully ready for whatever the task is. It may be that the late bloomer is attending to more internal threads than most people.