Nothing comes with a difinitive meaning ... YOU CREATE MEANING. That is your job. You think meaningless ... meaningless it is. You think NEW RISK EXciting ... there ya go! what ever it is you are the one responsible for interpreting and creating. If you decide to make use of another person interpretation as fact and organize your experience from an exterior point of view (another persons opinion) that to is your choice.

Not sure how being highly sensitive has anything to do with a limited social circle. I have gone through time zones with more and also less social network ... neither external condition is the source aka my brain bodies ability to sense and perceive with depth and intensity.

Hi Zhee, thanks for the reply.

I've been doing research work for most of the time after acquiring the postgraduate degree. As most of the HSP, I enjoy a calm life with only a few very close friends.

Lots of relatives and friends say I've got very limited social experience...

Hence I wonder if meeting various people may enrich my social exprience and make me less sensitive to what happens around.

Fito, here is another kind of reply. the way I relate to going from less social to more social is a matter of organizing new patterns. The first part requires the most energy and effort and that would taking steps into new environments/atmospheres. This is true for actual weather say hot to cold as well as people many or one. It all requires space to organize all of the input. I make sure I have that space available for the new experience. New patterns aka behavior patterns generally bring up anxiety for me more or less but anxiety. It does require energy ... more effort to develop a new pattern / social or other.

I do not think this is going to create less sensitivity but that it creates new patterns which then become paths of use over time and practice.This leads to less effort because many new items become the given and not as intense after processed repeatedly and then imprint.

The goal is to become more available for life and less in retreat due to inability to organize sensory/emotional information. I figure being super sensitive just means it will take more time to organize because I derive more from experiencing life.

I am totally for enriching social life ... this way I learn more about what I bring to the table of life and vise versa.

I think everyone can benefit from being exposed to working with the public. Seeing all sorts of people, with all sorts of baggage/struggles, can really put things into perspective sometimes. Plus, we come to thicken our skin a bit, because some people are in so much pain that they hurt us with their words/actions but don't really mean to ... which is another side to the perspective, I think it's healthy.

When I go out, which isn't all that often due to deadlines, I try to connect with people, clerks, lonely looking shoppers and so on. It helps. Good luck.

I agree Mechelle, I live in a busy city and if I didn't I would get too isolated, and my brain would begin over thinking things.

Fito, I think it could be a good idea to start part time and build up maybe later, if you want to. But customer service jobs can be tough so take things slowly and build in time to relax.