I’d say you have an awareness that most lack.
Heck...you know how it is. It is hard to be grateful/aware of things like a flushing toilet or running water until you have gone through a phase where they are denied to you.
Interesting story: I used to be in a training squadron for a few months back in the mid-Seventies that was commanded by John McCain (yes, that John McCain). I went into the administrative office section of the squadron hanger up on the second deck, and the access to the offices was off a long, dark hall that ran the entire length of the huge hangar. The only light during the day was provided by the two large windows, one at each end of the hall where the stairs came up.
Anyway, I came into the hallway, and as I began the walk to the offices, in the dim light, I could make out the shape of a person standing at the scuttlebutt (water bubbler) in the dead center of the hallway.
I didn’t give it much thought, but it was a long hallway, and as I got closer, the person wasn’t moving, just standing there with the button depressed, the water running as he stared at it without moving.
When I got up close enough, I saw it was Commander McCain. He had been standing there, motionless, finger on the button, staring at the running water. That was a long hallway, so he had been standing there fixated on that water stream for a while. He was still there when I turned into an office.
I thought about that for a long time. (I knew who he was, having grown up in a Navy family and closely followed the POW situation for years, wearing the bracelets, and we even drove over to Andrews AFB to greet some who came directly to the East Coast when they were released)
My first thought was...maybe he was just waiting for the water to get cold. But that wasn’t it. This was only about two and a half years after his release, and it was evident to me he was somewhere else at that point in time, standing in that dim passageway in that hangar staring at that water stream. And I did have a keen awareness at that time, that...being deprived of water on demand must have been a real trial.
It was one of the reasons it took me so long to come around to his level of perfidy as a Senator. I had this built in mechanism that made me disinclined to criticize him as a former naval officer and POW, even with his behavior since then. Thank goodness for some gentle people at FR who likely saw that in me and helped me get around it.