“He did. I remember him making that very point, how he eventually became numb to it. But the good news is that he went on to live as a life as a compassionate, loving man who had no problem making friends. So, no, Funboy, I don’t think we’re turning into unfeeling psychopaths. I think we’ve just been hurt so many times that we’ve built up some scar tissue. It’s made the more recent hurts hurt less. And maybe that’s a bit of a blessing, a way for our minds to help us keep going when things are really bad.”
