We’re all in this together, just trying the best we can

Sometimes I’ll be going along, not thinking about much of anything, and maybe even a little bit irritable. And then all of a sudden and completely without warning, I fall in love with humanity. Head over heels. Completely, utterly, madly.

I love us all. We’re all so raw and sad and mentally ill and yet so enthusiastic and smiling and normal. I love us all in our suffering and sadness and misery and in all of our beauty and cheerfulness and sweetness.

It happens, I think, when I get a sudden and unexpected peek at a person’s vulnerabilities. I recognize them because they are the same as my own.

When we’re watching the first auditions of American Idol and some dude is standing there just screaming at Simon and losing his mind, my husband will say “I love people,” and I know just what he means. We’re all in this together, just trying the best we can.

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