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rnbergren wrote:
I appreciate people and events at a deeper level than I did when I was younger
Amen !

Perhaps there's a pendulum-swing effect where the histrionic ripens into ... on the outer levels ... less emotional display ? While the habitually less effusive ripen into more outer lability, more expressiveness ?

I think we need to distinguish sentiment from empathy, and, for any given individual, there are such complex factors that shape temperament, generalizations are weak.

imho, any way we get to compassion is a blessing.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

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