90% Emotion

I am a very intense person, a very emotional person. I have heard people are 90% water. I am more inclined to believe I am 90% emotion. It is hard to prove since emotions tend to feel heavier to the one they belong to and are difficult to measure.

For anyone who doesn't know what this is like, imagine being skinned alive and held up to the vagaries of the weather. The sun makes your blood boil, the wind cuts through you like a knife and rain rolls off of you in sheets of such intensity it can be either ecstasy or torture. Just a bit too intense for most people to deal with on an hour to hour basis.

Short bursts of me are all anyone really wants and I deal with rejection very poorly. Like the witch in the Wizard of Oz, pour a cup of rejection on me and I begin to shrink. Don't laugh. I couldn't believe a bucket of water got rid of that witch, but it did.

I am now in my cocoon stage, spun out of bursts of love that surge my way, keeping me protected and safe from the emotionally laden world beyond.

It might not work for someone else, but for me it is a Godsend.