Accurate. My own aliveness was deadened for very pragmatic reasons; it’s what’s enabled me to endure my life. There are some advantages, such as greater rationality, but it was very eerie and disturbing noticing the capacity to feel strong emotions gradually weakening over the course of my teenage years. I don’t know if that will ever come back.
Accurate. My own aliveness was deadened for very pragmatic reasons; it’s what’s enabled me to endure my life. There are some advantages, such as greater rationality, but it was very eerie and disturbing noticing the capacity to feel strong emotions gradually weakening over the course of my teenage years. I don’t know if that will ever come back.