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Empathy is such a powerful thing. Sympathy, not so much, but empathy. When you meet someone

and they can't solve your problem, but they have walked through similar path,

experience what you've experienced. And when they go, oh, I know, you know, wow, yeah,

they really know that they actually feel what you feel.

The other side of that or another aspect of that is here's something we've all experienced.

It really probably in every season that we've run into someone who was able, or we heard about

someone who was able to put words around what we were feeling. And sometimes you don't even know

what you're feeling. You just, you know, you're feeling something and you're frustrated or you're

afraid or you're you have questions. And then somebody says something, you read something for

most of us. How do it for me? It's often song lyrics. Then you hear a song and you're like,

oh, I love that song. And it may not even be in your genre. It may not even be your, you know,

people are like, that's not my favorite. But there's like one or two lines sometimes in a song

when a lyricist just expresses perfectly what you're feeling. And in some ways, it becomes like

a soundtrack for your life. And some of us, you know, we've lived long enough, you can think back

to different soundtracks for different seasons where some lyricists just captured what you were

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