We are so fortunate to have so many choices in life. There are the ones we make every minute: what to have for lunch, how we wear our hair, what we read (if we even chose to read), where we go and what we do when we get there and infinitely more. Then there are the significant decisions we make: to get married (or not), to have children (or not), career, where to live.
Because of the innumerable options, both large and small, we all have lives that are vastly different; each individual’s story is unique. Even those closest to you will have an existence much unlike yours. And yet, despite all the variables that make up a life, the resulting emotions of any given event . . . laughter, joy, love, happiness, tears, pain, anger, fear, sadness . . . are the same. And that allows us to comfort each other, to celebrate with each other and to share in a life that looks nothing like our own. It’s amazing to me that emotions connect us when we all have made different selections in the a la carte menu of life. Oh, and throw in the things that occur in your life that you didn’t order!
If you ever feel like your life distances you from that of others’, that what is your reality seems to detach you from everyone else’s, chances are that other people are thinking the same thing about themselves. But while what causes us to laugh or cry may vary, it comes from the same place.
This is obviously not a new concept and a hot topic for the world since the beginning of time. But it’s a personal lesson I needed to relearn and wanted to share with you. By the way, my menu does NOT include onions. If yours does, disregard everything I’ve just said. You and I are not the same.
