Being Vulnerable Is Being Human
I equate vulnerability to openness and growth, and invulnerability to being closed off and small. As Nick Cave once wrote: “I think to be truly vulnerable is to exist adjacent to collapse or obliteration.”
And while this may feel dangerous and terrifying, it also simultaneously feels a bit exciting. How alive will you feel existing here? How much potential and possibility await? What big shifts could happen?
I think the more time we spend here, and the more comfortable we get with being in this place of vulnerability, the less we will worry about how others might judge us.
Humans are remarkably vulnerable. And the more we can acknowledge and embrace this, the more we can grow into the fullness of our humanity.