I'm not going to write whole paragraphs about that, not only would I babble and ramble for pages, but now I have a shrink to discuss that
To sum it up, it certainly made things more precious. You become attuned, for a moment anyway, to the absolute fragility and precariousness of what
is. As Sarah said, it's a gift and a curse. I, for one, have now very little patience for negativity. I used to find it boring, now it's abhorrent.
I really don't care about silly, useless bullshit. There's no time for that.