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to it and therefore the impact is minimised. When you see something so often you
can tend, over time, not to “see” it at all. I guess in a way it’s like a callous: it’s just a
hardening of skin over a once sensitive area of the body that, as it is used more
often, toughens up and desensitises itself. I wonder sometimes if we haven’t got
callouses on our eyes where we see, but in reality we just don’t “see”. This would
make us appear sometimes to be indifferent to the needs of others. Robin Williams,
in the movie Patch Adams, makes a speech in front of some very calloused professo