7 reasons why everyone needs a Highly Sensitive Friend?

Human beings are social animals, they seek comfort in one another. Their desire to feel closeness runs deeper in their DNA. Whether they admit it or not, they desire a place where they feel a sense of belongingness. Sometimes it’s a place and sometimes a person, with whom they can share a piece of themselves without being judged for their vulnerability. This is when a highly sensitive friend come in handy.

A friend is a person with whom we relate in one way or another, on whom we rely, and who we choose to join us in our life journey. Some stay longer, some choose a different path. All in all, they play a crucial role in our lives. They all depict the phase of our lives that we once lived or shared with them. Some we cherish till date and some we just want to forget about. All played a great role in that phase and helped us grow.

I can go on and on about it but today I want to share why we all need a highly sensitive friend, what’s so different about them, and why to have one in your immediate reach. Yes, immediate reach is necessary because they love to cocoon themselves away from the world. They have this amazing ability to become invisible right in front of your eyes. So let’s know why everyone needs a highly sensitive friend.

1. Highly Sensitive Friends are good listeners

Highly sensitive people are good at observing people, they will listen to you closely and remember what you said. You can forget about it but they won’t. It’s like they have ingrained it in their memory so that they can use it later to comfort you the best.

2. Highly Sensitive Friend won’t stab you on your back:

Highly sensitive people are usually those who have experienced a rough childhood. They hold a lot of hurt within their bodies as trauma. They understand the pain of betrayal and suffering thus they will never make someone else go through the same pain consciously. Highly sensitive friend or friends are reliable beings who see the world from their sensitive mind and heart.

3. Your secrets are safe with them

Highly sensitive friend understand that human beings are crazy creatures who make mistakes. I guess the reason why they are better at keeping secrets is that they have felt unsafe in their childhood which led them to keep a lot of secrets. Thus when they sense your fears they kind of project it like they are their own. So to make you feel safe they hide your secrets like they will do for themselves. Just a safety mechanism but a great one for people around them.

4. Empathic Abilities

Their empathic abilities make them know how you feel, without even you telling them. They can sense when something bothers you even if you cannot explain it to them. If you have ever met an empath before you might already know how good you feel after just sitting or talking with them for a while.

5. They sense red flags first

Their empathic abilities come in handy when danger is in the corner. Your mind may lie but don’t question a highly sensitive friend when they sense red flags around. Because even they don’t know the hows of this process.

6. They know how to comfort people

HSPs are not practical people, they won’t give you advice or try to toughen you up. They have realized early in their life that people don’t need advisors, they just need someone who they can rely on, like emotional support. They know how emotions work so they will never ask you to change the way you feel. They will accept you in your most vulnerable state without holding any judgment.

7. No judgements

Highly sensitive friend sitting by the river

They won’t judge you for your insecurities because they have many. Since they can sense emotions easily they know how you feel and thus will never judge or make fun of you for feeling so. Trust me, when I say it, they understand emotions better than math.

A word of advice at the end, be a good listener too. Don’t just expect a perfect friend around you, be that one too. You may never know when you are needed by a highly sensitive friend, don’t just take from them, they flourish when you let them share their stories. It takes a little time for them to become comfortable but when they do, they stay by your side longer.