News...and Sentimentality

I am becoming very sentimental. Looking any TV programs or news about problems that relate to boys and girls from children’s home or about those who suffer from any nature cataclysms, every time I gulp down my sob. Certainly, it is evident to sympathize with people who suffer but even some months ago I wasn’t so mawkish. Does it depend on my mood? Or, am I just becoming older realizing in full how awful these problems are? They are not so easy questions to answer!