Crying baby on a plane

Charlie: We had good flights this time. Two hours to Chicago, 5 hour layover and 8 hours to Madrid. Of course you don’t sleep much on a plane to Europe, maybe 2 to three hours. I listen to Nature’s pace recordings of mountain meadows at dawn and thunderstorms and that helps a bit.

It didn’t help to have a crying baby for an hour or two. But I have no trouble having empathy for people with crying babies. Ever since I sometimes traveled with my own crying baby 25 years ago. Now when I hear a crying baby I am glad that it is not my responsibility and feel sorry for the poor parents. I can feel a kind of empathy for them that I can’t feel for a homeless person or a war refugee. Maybe we need visual simulations of these experiences so that people can feel more caring for others.

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