I consider myself a pretty gutsy person, but still there are things I am too afraid to do. I would list what those things are, but I think one of the most vulnerable things you can do is tell someone what you are afraid of. Not little things, not, “I’m afraid of rats” type things, but more serious, heavy things. I am afraid of rats, and it actually has made me vulnerable to people telling me there are rats places there aren’t and so on. Demonstrating your fears shows your areas of vulnerability, and, then again, seeing people’s areas of vulnerability makes them more human. More human simply because, when you attack a person’s vulnerability in a sense we are attacking their “death spot.” The fact that we have death spots reveals our mortality, which makes us very human. People are vulnerable, everybody is. Some of us would laugh at other people’s areas of weakness, because where they see weakness all we see is strength. Sometimes things look like they are going down the tubes, but if you look around there could be someone who you don’t expect trying to extend a hand to help. But then again, if you reveal you need help, you reveal that you are vulnerable – and no one wants to show that.
 
 
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He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another’s personality, marking vulnerable points. – Ayn Rand