I didn't care about things when I was a kid which I do care about now. The difference is that I learnt that some things are "better" than others. And I only car

I didn't care about things when I was a kid which I do care about now. The difference is that I learnt that some things are "better" than others. And I only care about those things from a place of fear of being deprived of things which people with those things can seemingly get more easily. Some of it boils down to worrying and fretting about things which I don't, or maybe even can't, change. This has no root in rationality or pragmatism, so the usual arguments of having to care about such things because of adult responsibilities and problem fixing don't apply. Another facet is that this caring is only a projection of what you think you will feel in the having, or not-having, of those things. But many people have experienced that being one of the richest people in the world (the Western middle class and higher) isn't necessarily the most fulfilling existence that there is. Comfortable, perhaps, but not necessarily more than that.