That sounds incredibly callous and terrible, and I'm appalled until I remember how just yesterday my colleagues and I were laughing at a road wreck personal injury death case.
I feel pretty damn guilty for that when I think about it, but I know that the human mind can't process such sorrow, and black humor is how we HAVE to get through things like that.
I know you're a damn emphathetic person- if we allowed ourselves to resonate with the empathy we feel at other humans pain, then we couldn't do anything. I couldn't prepare my case. You couldn't prepare your files. We would get nothing done but weep.
I think the important thing is that we still feel that second-hand pain, still know it's there. If we can do that, the other is OK. I dread the day I don't feel that pain. I'm getting increasingly desensitized, but I hope I can always at least know that the pain is there and be discreet when I have to.
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Date: 2005-07-15 01:03 pm (UTC)I feel pretty damn guilty for that when I think about it, but I know that the human mind can't process such sorrow, and black humor is how we HAVE to get through things like that.
I know you're a damn emphathetic person- if we allowed ourselves to resonate with the empathy we feel at other humans pain, then we couldn't do anything. I couldn't prepare my case. You couldn't prepare your files. We would get nothing done but weep.
I think the important thing is that we still feel that second-hand pain, still know it's there. If we can do that, the other is OK. I dread the day I don't feel that pain. I'm getting increasingly desensitized, but I hope I can always at least know that the pain is there and be discreet when I have to.
*hugs you from afar*