Mortality can hit you like that.

I live with mortality, seldom further than 2nd hand, and it's effects are...not quite muted, but different. I don't get very emotional about strangers, because there are too many people whose stories I know and with whom my life has entwined. There are young mothers with cancer, childhood sweethearts facing seperation by Alzheimers, children with disabilities and shortened life spans. Each of them has something to teach, some strength or beauty to pass on. And when I can lose one and not cry, it will be time to find another line of work.