It comes at you while you’re building a spreadsheet or crossing items off your to do list or emptying your email inbox, this reminder of the irreducibly human drama around and under everyone we care about.
You look up from your desk and immediately doubt that these are the tasks that should occupy your attention. Can you not join a protest? Or stand beside a hospital bed?
So much of what our people endure escapes our attention. Could we take it if it didn’t?
YoRocko! 
That’s a great question. The distractions can be painkillers!