I have been thinking about two things today
I've been thinking about how I can get very emotionally invested in other peoples' problems. Sometimes that's a good thing, because it makes you a good friend. But other times it can drive you up the wall when you spend a lot of time worrying about people. It's difficult to find a balance. I want to be a therapist so I can help people, but therapists are supposed to be objective about their patients' problems. How can a person manage to be objective about people they care about? How can a therapist manage to be objective about their patients but not objective about their friends, and how do they prevent themselves from getting too stressed about other peoples' problems (both their patients' problems and their friends'?)
Another (completely unrelated) thing I was thinking about was that I wish people never had to get old. I don't wish that nobody ever died, because I think that death has an important purpose. But I wish that we could just age up to age 20 or so, and then never have to look older or get the problems that come with old age--arthritis, senility, bad joints, Alzheimers disease, etc. That would be nice.
Another (completely unrelated) thing I was thinking about was that I wish people never had to get old. I don't wish that nobody ever died, because I think that death has an important purpose. But I wish that we could just age up to age 20 or so, and then never have to look older or get the problems that come with old age--arthritis, senility, bad joints, Alzheimers disease, etc. That would be nice.