India, Dec. 2 -- A forty-nine-year-old male client in therapy tells me, "Sometimes I hear my own thoughts and feel uneasy because I'm already bracing for people to let me down, even when nothing has happened. I have become cynical, and hold so many pre-conceptions about life and people, including those whom I barely know. I don't like who I am turning into."

Adulting is complicated, it comes with wisdom but also with baggage which we sometimes don't even recognize. The feeling of being jaded is one of the risks that comes with growing older. The reality is that all of us have been through a phase or stage in our life when we have felt jaded. Whenever we experience suffering, grief, or loss of some kind, for instance, or when we have pers...