Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve: 12 Reasons to Be Open
Some of us were just born more tender and open about our feelings than others. Being a highly sensitive person can be both a blessing and a curse. But instead of seeing your vulnerability and openness to others as a weakness, there are ways to see the silver lining in your personality style.
Rather than attempting to stop being someone or something that you are *which is nearly impossible, anyway*, try to find solace in being wholly you. Learning to love ourselves is the only way to make it through this world.
Why you should wear your heart on your sleeve
Sometimes being vulnerable gains you much more in life than being closed and guarded. Here are the top 12 reasons why you should embrace wearing your heart on your sleeve!
#1 If you don’t experience pain, you’ll never know what pleasure is. The highly sensitive person may feel pain more intensely, but in the reverse, we feel delight in a way that no one ever can. Since the pendulum swings both ways, you get the highest of both peaks and valleys. If you don’t put yourself out there, you may never get hurt, but you also wouldn’t ever be able to feel pure joy.
#2 Your time on earth is more meaningful. Although debatable, those who wear their heart on their sleeve tend to live a more meaningful life. Humans were put here to make connections. If we weren’t, then we wouldn’t have been given the skills to communicate, nor would we need one another for survival. When you make yourself vulnerable, you are living life to the fullest and finding meaning in reaching out to others. [Read: How to make a relationship work for the better]
#3 You take more chances. If you are always being guarded and suspicious without putting it all out there, then you will probably never take the same chances as someone who can make themselves vulnerable. Someone who wears their heart on their sleeve is comfortable with voicing their feelings.
You have to be willing to get hurt to put yourself out there; otherwise, taking chances is nearly impossible. By wearing your heart on your sleeve, you don’t stop yourself from what you want. Instead, you give it your all.
#4 People trust you. If you are someone who wears your heart on your sleeve, the people around you most likely know that when you are saying something, you are being honest. Saying what you mean and meaning what you say is the motto that you live by. Rather than just saying things to make people feel good, you say them because you mean them and are okay with being true to yourself and to others. This quality builds trust with those around you and puts strangers at ease. [Read: How to build trust in a relationship]
#5 You are a good friend. If you put your vulnerability out there, you’re probably always there for other people. Having a high sense of empathy, you understand what people are going through. Since you have likely run every gamut of emotions possible, it makes you a good sounding board and someone who can put yourself into someone else’s shoes and help them through the tough hurdles in life.
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