Stoneheart

Things only matter when they're close to me.
There are times when I feel like I have a heart of stone. I can never feel sorry for anybody or empathize with them unless I've been in a similar situation. Take the recent Mumbai terror blasts for example. Everybody around me was feeling outraged and indignant at the terrorists and sorry for the victims.

I found it very hard to feel anything for anybody. Hell it wasn't happening to me or to somebody I knew. That is the wrong attitude. I know. But I just can't feel sad for people I didn't know existed till they died on television. Its just a certain number of people who died in blah city in blah terror blasts. For me to feel any amount of sympathy for them I would have to picture in detail, the same thing happening to myself and people I know.