Stop being so sensitive. I can hear my brother’s voices as 13-year-old Brian is starting to become a man. I hear it in my fraternity brothers while in college. And I can even hear it in my friends and people that are closest to me today. As long as I can remember, I have felt that sensitivity has been part of my wiring; in my DNA, so to speak. As a kid, I didn’t know what to do with it. I could feel things others seemingly didn’t, or at least they didn’t acknowledge they did. I was emotional. Boys are often told to be stoic. Brush it off. Don’t cry. Be tough. Heck, forget being tough, you just are tough. Like sensitivity, it’s part of your wiring.
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