Compartmentalizing my emotions from my thinking brain has become almost second nature. When people say 'it's sad' I just look at them blankly. The awfulness usually hits me later, when I have time to reflect and to feel... Anything.

So, yes. It is sad. It is terribly heart-crushingly why-is-the-world-so-unfair sad. It is soul-rippingly sad. I don't know if it's better that I can feel these things. Although I suppose if we numbed sadness, we'd have to numb joy as well.

Better not lose the human.