- This is a story about a highly sensitive teenage girl
who was given a magical sunscreen
that protects her from all the pain in the world.
(cheerful music)
Welcome back, everyone.
For those of you that don't know,
Story Time With Nate is when I
tell a story off the top of my head.
Nothing has been pre-written.
That means things can get a little crazy
so I hope you're comfortable, I hope you're ready
to be taken on a wild ride.
The first time Willow was called
overly sensitive or emotional
was when she was six years old.
It was a school yard.
She was out by herself playing with a toy truck,
doing that vroom vroom noise
as the truck circled the back yard.
And that's when John came up to her,
elbowed her in the chest,
and ripped that truck from her hands
and then started playing with it himself.
Now Willow started crying.
She was on the ground crying
looking up, eyes red when her teacher came up
to her having not seen the episode that just happened,
said, "Willow, get up. Nothing is wrong with you."
It was the first time her emotions were not recognized.
Willow from that moment on learned not
to believe her emotions.
So you can imagine by the time she was 13 years old
when people started laughing and talking
in quiet voices near her
she assumed they were talking and laughing at her.
She could feel the knives penetrating her chest
and digging into her soul so much
that she felt unworthy of everything and anything.
She hated every single day of her life.
She sat at the back of the class
as quiet as possible
trying desperately to be invisible.
She would close her eyes and imagine herself
invisible, see-through.
That's all she wanted in life,
to be see-through.
To be seen through.
So you can imagine, one day in Social Studies class
she was handed a note.
A note landed on her desk, folded up tightly.
She unwrapped it, looking around,
concerned with what was inside.
Perhaps someone teasing her yet again
for something she didn't know what.
For existing perhaps.
But when she opened up,
she realized it was a note from Matthew.
The cutest boy in the class.
He was tall, he had blonde hair,
tanned olive skin, blue eyes
and said, "Meet me at the cafeteria. I have a
"crush on you, and have a gift."
Being still naive as she was, she was excited.
Her heart started beating, and beating faster
until she was sure everyone could hear her heart
ticking like a time bomb.
Baboom, baboom, baboom til the bell rang
and she became so full of anxiety.
Nervous, and happy and excited
for what was to come.
She ran to the cafeteria
and by the time she reached the cafeteria
and she was starting to sweat.
There was no one there.
She waited for five minutes, there was no one there.
She looked at her phone, there was no one there.
Till she heard a ribbit sound.
Getting louder, ribbit, ribbit,
and she looked down and a frog,
a huge, giant ugly brown toad
with a chest so large and ugly
and pimply had jumped on her foot
and was ribbiting on her foot
and that was when she heard the cries
and the snickers and laughs
from around the corner.
Matthew and his friends were there laughing.
She had been pranked.
She had been bullied yet again.
This was the worst of them all.
So bad that she couldn't even cry.
She could do nothing but run.
But as she ran she tripped and skinned her knee.
That forced them even to laugh more
and she could hear that laughter
in her ears all the way home.
That laughter haunted her every day of her life.
She ran through the kitchen and into her bedroom.
Her mother could hear her throw
the pillow up against the wall
and it slid down slowly
across the book shelves
and the books slammed to the floor.
Later that afternoon,
before her mom could have that talk
about how boys were just joking,
that they didn't mean it,
for her not to take anything too personally.
You know that talk.
Any sensitive person knows that talk
and hates that talk.
So she ran out the sliding glass door in the back
and out into the forest behind their house.
And in this forest full of pine trees
where no sun could penetrate the canopy,
she found a cave
and in that cave she curled up
and huddled into a tiny ball
and screamed out to the forest,
"Why? Why do I exist?"
And that is when she heard a crumpling in the trees,
and down, down came a big eagle.
And this eagle landed two feet from her.
And she wasn't scared.
She was strangely comforted.
And this eagle decided
to step one step closer to her
and then dropped out of its beak, a jar, a glass jar,
and that is when the eagle said a few words to her.
And that was when Willow thought she was dead.
For eagles cannot speak.
But this one was speaking.
This wise old eagle with gray hair
and a bent wing said,
"Take this, this magical
"sunscreen will protect you
"from everything in the world.
"You will no longer feel pain.
"You will no longer feel those knives
"digging deep into you.
"You can withstand the world,
"but be careful.
"Do not use it every day
"because you will soon forget
"how to feel anything.
"For it, this sunscreen does not protect
"from just evil, it protects from everything.
"From the good as well as the bad."
She didn't hear that part.
She heard protect.
So she immediately started glopping
that sunscreen on her
and walked home.
And the next day, walking into the classroom
as she sat down,
Matthew started laughing,
turned around and threw a spitball
which landed right in the cheek.
Right there.
And Willow was un-phased.
She didn't even feel the spitball.
She didn't even hear the laughter.
Most importantly, she didn't even
hear the voices in her head telling her
that she was unworthy, telling her to run,
to run, to run away.
She didn't hear anything.
She didn't feel anything,
and for the first time in who knows how long,
perhaps ever, she was able to focus on
what was outside of her, not what was inside.
It was the best day in the school she'd ever had.
She actually learned something.
She learned the quadratic equation.
She learned about European colonization.
She learned about mitochondria.
What she also learned, she also learned
what the eagle was talking about
when he said this sunscreen does not
differentiate between good and bad.
So while this should have made her happy,
it didn't make her feel anything.
She felt such clarity.
She was taking in so much information
she knew she must have been happy,
but she didn't know what happy was
because she couldn't feel anything.
She felt her soul empty instead of
bleeding with an empty cavern.
And when she went home,
she smelled cookies in the air.
Her mom had baked her her favorite
chocolate chip cookies.
This is something that always used
to put a smile on Willow's face.
But Willow couldn't smile.
She had too much sunscreen on.
She ate her cookies with no smile.
No smile, no laughter, no enjoyment.
So the next day, Willow didn't wear the sunscreen.
She walked in to class and felt those daggers.
Those daggers were close to her.
They were ready, they were ready to cut
and she was ready to feel the cuts.
But she was also ready to come home
and feel the love.
The love her mother always gave her
every single afternoon.
I hope you enjoyed that story.
I am so empathetic to Willow,
because in many ways Willow is me.
My entire life I have been called
overly sensitive or emotional.
I've had girlfriends call me that.
I've had them dump me because of that.
So I started calling myself sensitive
and that's such a negative term.
I started hating myself
because I was so sensitive.
So let's change that around.
Let's call someone sensitive in a positive light.
Yes, I am sensitive and I am proud to be sensitive
because I can feel.
I am not numb to pain or joy.
Let me know in the comments below
if you consider yourself a highly sensitive person too.
Let me know your struggles, let me know your joys
with being a sensitive person.
I want to know.
Let's have a conversation.
Don't forget that I love you.
This is really important so come closer.
I love you.
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