Pain and Longing

Without pain and longing there would be no poetry, no music, no art in any form. The human experience of pain and longing is universal: all of us have to face major change, loss, separation, heartbreak… it is the course of life. It is inevitable. 

And precisely because all of us experience pain, it has the power to connect us. We can relate, we see ourselves in other people‘s pain. We see ourselves in artwork that invokes feelings of sadness, longing or aching… 

We feel seen. We feel understood. We feel held, embraced even - by the soft touch of melancholy music, of poems full of longing and heartbreak, of paintings like mirrors for our own emotions and mental states… 

Pain reflects our common humanity. And with this, deep connection is born.