Vulnerability / Connection
Above almost any other need, human beings long to have another person look into their face with loving respect and acceptance.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
If being ignored hollows us out, then being truly seen (not liked, not followed, not “engaged with”) but seen, can feel almost unbearable. Because while we claim to crave attention, many of us are silently terrified of what it might uncover. What if someone looks too closely and sees the neediness we have camouflaged as chill? The resentment we hav... See more
The Irrevocable Fear of Being Perceived
lettersbylau.substack.com
Vulnerability at its heart is the willingness to show up and be seen when you can’t control perception.[…]The one thing that we all have in common is… the paradox of vulnerability: that when I meet you, the very first thing I look for in you is vulnerability, and the very last thing I want to show you is my vulnerability.
Maria Popova • Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
the idea of vulnerability, and its different levels of meaning: vulnerability as a window, and vulnerability as a wound.
Jess Zimmerman • A Cow with a Hole in It
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