The Strength in Vulnerability

I was hiking, not long ago, with a friend on the Little-Big Econ Trail here in central Florida. We’d had an exciting morning crashing through the woods exclaiming over the size and ferocious appearance of the wolf spiders we, literally, ran into, and catching sight of some enormous gators floating nonchalantly in the river. We were finishing up our hike, heading back to the car when we came across a family of young armadillos. Adult armadillos are shy and skittish; these youngsters had zero fear of us. My camera/phone was in my friends backpack and by the time I retrieved it I had missed some pretty cool shots. One of the babies had walked, literally, across my shoes while foraging for breakfast. I didn’t want to scare off the little group so I resisted the urge to bend over and touch one. Did that outer shell feel hard, like armour? Was it softer when the animal was young then toughen up as it matured?

That certainly is the way it works in the human world isn’t it. No, we aren’t born with physical armour, our outer layer of skin is easily penetrable for our entire lifetime. But we have equipped ourselves to keep people at bay. We construct rock hard walls around our emotional selves, allowing only a chosen few to enter. Maybe. This feels like a protective action. Another problem arises however. When we block out our perceived threat, EVERYTHING gets blocked out. The armour we so meticulously erected is extremely effective. We shut down our “feeler”. About virtually everything.

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