Nothing is more humbling than taking inventory of our own emotions and finding that they may not be as unique as we thought. Emotions are responsible for the way we act and the way we exist in the world. They dictate how we interact with each other and how we make human connections. We can choose to act on them, ignore them or repress them, but they usually make their way out into the open anyway. So often, emotions are discredited in place of facts, news, anything that can be labeled as “objective”. They are cast aside as irrelevant to reality or to productivity. But can’t emotions be productive? Are they not irrevocably real? There is no such thing as a fake emotion, and that’s what makes this theme altogether so compelling. We hope that these stories will be engaging and approachable, and that you will afford them empathy. Perhaps even understand them as similar to your own. After all, that is the beauty of emotionality. It is so painfully and wonderfully relatable.
