This post really made me think about how I present. I can see now that I wanted to be high/small for a while now, but haven’t been very good at making myself small. I want to be the kind of person who leaves space for others, but when I’m around a group of big people I turn big reflexively so they can’t talk over me. I think part of the solution to that is spending more time with people who aren’t “shouting me down”.
The horse metaphor works well for me—humans aren’t that different from other animals, at least in my mind.
This post really made me think about how I present. I can see now that I wanted to be high/small for a while now, but haven’t been very good at making myself small. I want to be the kind of person who leaves space for others, but when I’m around a group of big people I turn big reflexively so they can’t talk over me. I think part of the solution to that is spending more time with people who aren’t “shouting me down”.
The horse metaphor works well for me—humans aren’t that different from other animals, at least in my mind.