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Be sensitive to other people's feelings
In your anxiety to cope with your own feelings, you may at times ride
roughshod over other people's. Try to remember that every member of the
group has his or her vulnerable areas, a tenderness which, once hurt, may
take some time to heal.
So, what does it mean to be strong? Does it mean enforcing your will on
others, keeping a stiff upper lip, bottling things up?
What does it mean to be weak? Does it mean sharing the fact that you are
afraid of speaking in groups. that you are worried about being 'sat upon', that
you find authority figures daunting?
What a lot of people count as strength is usually only a show of power used
to cover up deeper insecurity.
What a lot of people count as weakness is usually evidence of the humanity
that we all share - how prone we are to make mistakes, to get things wrong,
to fail to see what is in front of our noses! Admitting some of these things
is normally a sign of strength and depth of character.
The paradox is that your strength may lie in behaving and reacting in a way
which apparently strong people would dismiss as being weak!
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