Separateness + Connection
We struggle through our own existence most of the time. We seem to have a fundamental feeling of seperateness to the world.
The only solution to this is to try and belong to something bigger than ourselves, and so we desire to connect to things outside of us.
We want to connect with people so that we know they can feel what we feel, and we consume their creations to find a small part of them that we can identify with.
I think sharing parts of ourselves and searching for parts of others seems to really be the only way to find meaning.