Being Careful Vs. Being Respectful

How sensitivity is often control in disguise

How much energy do you spend trying not to upset others? Walking on eggshells around your moody teenager. Mowing the yard so your neighbors won’t complain. Deleting that sentence from an email because people might take it the wrong way. We are constantly imagining reactions and adjusting accordingly.

But the reactivity of others cannot be your compass. Y…