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I think there is a difference between senile decay, and the fact that when you are getting older, you have witnessed the fragility of life in ways that most tee
by kpil 10y ago
I think there is a difference between senile decay, and the fact that when you are getting older, you have witnessed the fragility of life in ways that most teenagers luckily have not.
I think my empathy is growing as I'm getting older.
I am aware that some people just hardens up or getting more or less traumatized if they experience really traumatic events or periods and I don't think it is that useful to look at war-like events as it kind of go outside a useful scale, but in personal tragedies a lot of people people seems to go softer.
Maybe you have to learn empathy. There are many signs that says it's at least partially so.
- notduncansmith 10y agoEmpathy definitely has to be exercised and trained regularly to work well. As I understand it (not an expert but I've read up on it on the Internet), children are pretty much incapable of it until ~4 as there's some mental development necessary. If you spend lots of time in an environment where you're not conscious of building your empathy and remembering to use it, your ability and tendency to do so will wither.