Author's POV :

John hearing those words, felt his while world stopped spinning.

He have lost sensitivity - to people, to feelings, to things, to emotions, to nature, to everything.

I don't think this is an isolated problem. In other words this is a problem that 7 billion of us have. You are

just aware of it.

If you want to solve it, read on, but snap out of this mindset, that you have some special, unique

problem. You don't.

Now let's see how we lose ...