Have you observed how, happiness makes us insensitive? Like when you were happy, you couldn't comprehend or were patient enough to hear out or really feel for someone who's in not so great state?
Me [in a whiny mood, with fervent passion] : I don't want to study no more. I WANT to be a house wife. The Man [without skipping a beat] : And I WANT to be a bachelor.
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wat happened to u?
Ange - Contradict away. Honestly :-) We always had those long 4 hour conversations, remember? I think u belong to the other half of the population. No, actually u are a minority. I have often found people like me - insensitive when happy. Yes, there is another group which is insensitve when they are depressed. I guess thats where u fit.
in my case, think its self-absorbed.
you - i think detached.
I agree and disagree with you (hah! u need an mba to come up with statements like this).
Happiness does not make us insensitive. But euphoria does (but euphoria is shortlived).
Nor does suffering make us more tuned to distress in others. Point being, empathy is not necessarily a function of one's state of mind.