Vulnerability isn’t weakness. Many people confuse the two. Vulnerability is a basic element of personal responsibility, and personal responsibility has nothing to do with being weak, quite the opposite.
We are at our weakest when we allow other people to make decisions for us, when we wallow in denial and when we disengage from our lives. This is weakness.
To be vulnerable on the other hand, means we are plugged into our lives. It means that while we make decisions feeling uncertain, fearful and apprehensive, we move forward anyway.
If we were weak we’d be looking around for people, places and circumstances to blame. We’d be busy working ourselves up to high-drama gnashing our teeth and beating our chest.
Vulnerability in service of personal responsibility takes into account the risk but acknowledges that however our choices work out, we’ll be ready for the education, one way or another.
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