Everyone faces obstacles in life. Pain. Loneliness. Death. Nobody can truly escape from the trials and tribulations that life seems to hand us. For as much as people have the capacity to love... so too do they have the capacity to hate. To lose themselves in a never-ending tunnel so narrow and constricting that time only seems to squeeze harder and harder, overwhelming them completely and leaving them lost without hope of escape. It warps the their reality to the point where that tunnel becomes their whole world. It manipulates emotions. Changes goals. Skews the clear path they were walking when the world was not confined to a tunnel... and a truly happy ending no longer seems possible. They become lost.

But why? Why do people get lost? How do people allow these obstacles to stop them from appreciating and enjoying the beauty of life? What is it that causes some to be forever lost in a world of torment and confusion while others seems to surpass and exceed and continue growing and learning and... living? Are some of us simply born stronger? More resilient? With more emotional stability? Or perhaps... the answer is something different all together. Something we all seek. We all need. We all depend on that constantly gives us the strength and stability to live our life to the fullest. Perhaps the answer is simply...

The answer I found is "family."

Clannad.