All human experiences are not unique, but are shared by generation after generation. Love, loss, ambition, hope, grief - the whole big journey. Others have gone before us and others will go after - it's a comfort somehow. To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
Marcus Tullius Cicero