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I've never really thought about this. I think my emotional reactions are normal, who knows. When I hear bad news, I will be upset if it is close or relevant enough to me. I will be a lot more likely to feel upset if I see someone I am fond of looking upset or crying. Then my tendency is to also cry with them. I can't help that. Sometimes it's annoying.
I think it sounds normal to me, if it hasn't happened to someone that close to you. An external event is exactly that, and either you can connect with it through your "imagination" and "empathy" or you can't. I wouldn't worry about it.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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