I really wonder what it is to be truly sensitive to the context we live in. In a way, it recognises our own limits to knowledge and understanding what is best for 'the other'. It means to be attuned to needs other than 'the self'. So when development practitioners and experts talk of sensitive development, they must acknowledge that the development they espouse stems from their own experience of what it means in their life. It can never be a benchmark to assess others. In doing that, one needs to be sensitive to one's own assumptions, biases, prejudices that make up one's own perception about life. Many a time we lose sight that everything around us is filtered through a lens we wear. This lens colours our views on life, people, places and things. It is important to be sensitive to that lens we wear when seeing the world around us. Sensitive development recognises the limits of externally-imposed ideas of "the good life". It says that while this works for me, it may not work for you, for only you know what works best for yourself. Respecting that is difficult, for we all know that we remain fallible fools who believe that life begins and ends with us. When we are really little spokes circling that wheel of life.