It’s easy to forget when you are in the middle of your own life traumas and challenges, how normal those challenges are for many others across the world besides you. There are not many experiences on this earth that someone else hasn’t already gone through in some shape or form before you, including the good, bad, and ugly. I’m reminded of this through a particularly poignant song or movie often. I admit, it doesn’t take much for me to tear up and empathize with others on TV or in music. I’m one of those who cries at commercials if they touch me in a certain way. I may be more open with my emotions than others are comfortable with for themselves, but the bottom line is: those commercials, movies, and songs touch people in various ways because they share human experiences we can relate to in our own lives. It’s good to have these reminders that others have been what you’ve been through and made it, and that they’ve felt what you felt and survived it, and that more times than not, they were all the better for what they had dealt with and been through because of it. I maintain that the toughest times in our lives are character builders, insight givers, and wisdom makers for us. It’s just nice sometimes to know that you’re not crazy in how you feel, and that you’re not alone. The human experience is exactly that, a human experience, not an individual one. The people and circumstances which make up the challenges we face in life may be different, but the feelings and the learning experiences all meet in the middle, and that’s why we pay so much money and spend so much of our time and energy with those artists of film and music because they are able to put on screen or into words and sound what we don’t always know how to express ourselves, and we can empathize with those persons and work through our own traumas better by knowing we are not doing it alone, knowing that it’s a small world after all...
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