The Peas That Hurt Us Are Often Invisible to Others

It’s up to us to honor our sensitivity and remove those peas

photo © 2005 by Tomasz Sienicki, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons

Just like in the fairy tale ‘The Princess and the Pea’, the peas that hurt us are often invisible to the people around us, and thus unacknowledged by them. It takes courage to say, “Yes, I’m lying on top of 20 luxuriously soft mattresses and 20 more feather beds, but still…