I get where JWB and DwnWthVwls are coming from. As a kid I was all hypersensitive and ****, but after life kicked me around enough, and I'd spent a large part of my life feeling like a miserable open wound, I guess the scar tissue built up and I just became numb to a lot of the **** that makes other people emotional. It's not like I don't feel emotions or empathy, but it takes more to get through my mental defense mechanisms. I still love my pets as much as I ever did, and I used to bawl my eyes out when they'd die, but not so much anymore.
And if the majority of people on here are the opposite of that, I think it's because a certain number of you are the touchy-feely, arty types (I say that with love) who don't have much separation between themselves and their emotions. It makes you more empathetic, but I don't imagine the constant turmoil is entirely healthy. I'm assuming that's what JWB's point was.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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