I was thinking about this the other day. Since I've left the borg, I find myself loving other humans more. Like all the little children being abducted, the miners trapped in the mine last week, the victims of car accidents that I pass on the road, a woman crying in the car next to me while waiting for the green light, the homeless that I see every weekend at a local soup kitchen where I volunteer, etc. Added to that the joy I feel in my heart when I see people succeed like a woman that I barely know getting a new job, reading in the newspaper of an older couple who are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, seeing a newborn baby, etc.
As a Witness, I never understood what it meant to "love people." It was always noted that "we were in the door to door activity because we love people," but I never felt the love for people that I do now. All of the abovementioned examples just makes me cry at the grief that people are faced with. I get so choked up when I see these things. But I also find myself shedding tears of joy for people that are experiencing the joys of life. As a dub, my emotions were so hard and the only time I may have gotten choked up is if it were another dub facing hard times, but even rarely then.
Do you find you love people more, now that you are out? And do JWs really understand what it feels like to "love people?"