Desperately seeking life

Was watching an episode of Desperate Housewives earlier (yes i do follow this "girly" show) and this week's episode was really thought provoking.

"You can't protect what you can't predict."
"Everyone has problems, but we all deal with it inside!"

Just some lines that got to me. We all go about living our lives thinking we've got it real bad in the world. Only we have issues. Only we have problems. Truth is everyone has their own set of unique challenges in life and we shouldn't belittle others by judging their outlook against our own internal state of mind. If that would be that case, we'd all be hating each other and planning mass murder because everyone just seems so much better off.

We all need to have empathy in our lives. Compassion for our neighbour despite our individual set of challenges. Despite us only sharing selected issues with others after carefully filtering it and scrutinizing them. "Them" meaning both people and our issues.

Not too sure what the point I'm driving at. Maybe just how closely television mirrors real life. :-)