highly sensitive power

Remember how it feels when someone else makes even a little effort to step around your bad mood – or your bad moment, or your major flub-up? It feels great, right? Well, now it’s your turn.

When you look the other way, you can save someone’s day.

Yes, identifying mistakes, down to the infinitude of the sub-atomic level, often comes with the territory of being sensitive. Add the innate urge to right wrongs and you’re doomed, now and then, to feel a frightening urge to point out someone else’s error. What if, instead, you closed your mouth and stepped around it?

Have pity. You’ll be the dork again someday.

In Paris, people don’t scoop poop. Newcomers take missteps that lead to mishaps, but after a while they develop a second sense. Seasoned pedestrians glide around, their highly developed poop-sense taking care of things without even causing a pause in the conversation. Be like them. Avoid error-exacerbation. Develop a second-sense for being kind through enlightened ignorance.

Walk like a Parisian. Do the do-step around someone else’s mess.

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{ PEP TALKS deliver a bracing blast of Grace }

Flickr photo: Vintage Paris, by Lena_J

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