I see stark difference of say current generation and 2 generations ago. We are much more emotionally sensitive (for better or worse), I can see that even genera

I see stark difference of say current generation and 2 generations ago. We are much more emotionally sensitive (for better or worse), I can see that even generation of our parents is much less used to express their emotions, and are kind of 'hardened' emotionally. But then again they endured WW2, direct fighting of germans vs russians and 40+ years of harsh communism. Life wasn't worth as much as it is now. This change brought tons of empathy in our culture that led to equality for women, LBGT, minorities and so on, but it also makes us weaker when facing proper pain, be it physical or psychical. My grandma lost a boy, first baby, after few weeks when it got diarrhea and doctors couldn't save it even with antibiotics of that day. She 'moved on' and had 2 healthy babies afterwards, my father included. Around Halloween we have the tradition of visiting graves of our close ones, and I can see that bond is still strong when we visit his grave. She is a happy cheerful person, no dark shadow of this ever visible. As a young father a month-old baby, the very idea that something like that would happen to him makes me shiver, I don't think I could handle it. Today I saw an article on BBC about British NHS mistreatments, and there was a picture of a cute newborn boy that died after 6 days due to viral infection that got to his heart. I feel no shame as a man to admit I cried quite a bit after seeing that cute face that didn't get a chance for proper life. Complicated topic...