Yes, I agree with you. I think love, fear and suffering are a shared human experience. Your words are beautiful and I love the island metaphor you used. I think isolation or loneliness is another shared human experience. Language can only express so much of ourselves to others, so perhaps that is part of the sadness. But of course, there is also much joy in living, mixed in with all the other emotions. The trick I am learning is to embrace them all.