It’s funny (or ‘funny’) because people can have immensely different reactions. I remember a story of a WW2 GI who came home to the US wondering if he was just forever numb to the things he saw fighting in Europe. Very shortly after he came home, a few months, I think, he coincidentally was witness to a rather bloody car-crash (not him or anyone he knew), and was sick on the spot - later noting that, in a strange way, it was relieving - because when he was fighting in the war, a sight like that wouldn’t have made him give a second glance. Getting sick at the sight of gore was, in a way, a confirmation that he hadn’t lost that piece of his humanity forever.
People can come away scarred, but people can also adjust with astounding speed.
It’s funny (or ‘funny’) because people can have immensely different reactions. I remember a story of a WW2 GI who came home to the US wondering if he was just forever numb to the things he saw fighting in Europe. Very shortly after he came home, a few months, I think, he coincidentally was witness to a rather bloody car-crash (not him or anyone he knew), and was sick on the spot - later noting that, in a strange way, it was relieving - because when he was fighting in the war, a sight like that wouldn’t have made him give a second glance. Getting sick at the sight of gore was, in a way, a confirmation that he hadn’t lost that piece of his humanity forever.
People can come away scarred, but people can also adjust with astounding speed.