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The Burden (Min Börda) main title sequence. One might think that today – in the 21st Century – in places where, for a majority of the population, the basic needs to sustain human life are satisfied – food, water, heat, shelter – that much of the population would feel satisfied. Yet so often, especially when it comes to the line of work one takes upon oneself, it seems as if nothing could be further from the truth. Sometimes it’s so strong that one can practically feel it when in close proximity with the sufferer, like a shock of electricity buzzing through the air. At other times, it can’t be sensed at all, as many try so hard to keep it buried so deep that they themselves are the only ones who know it’s there – a deep and unutterable sense of purposelessness. The "Hotel LongStay" sequence from The Burden . So often the thing that stifles the feeling of purposelessness is a web woven from thoughts, thoughts that tell the sufferer that they hav...

There are few things that are quite like heartbreak – heartbreak of the soul-crushing kind: More than any commonly shared languages or cultural beliefs or social practices is something so universally shared and understood as the pain of heartbreak. However, what makes heartbreak so odd, so unique next to other kinds of pain, is its ability to confine its casualty in a feeling – a prison of a kind isolation that is amazingly personal, inexplicable, and easily crippling. There seems, of course, an easy fix – communication, sharing past pain, past heartbreaks. Words, however, so often fail us. And yet, there is a cure, albeit one that gets so often overlooked. It lingers, waiting to be discovered after the rest have failed. The cure is called art, and its remedy for heartbreak can lie in unexpected places – a cluttered attic, a dormant Netflix queue, a musical instrument that has long since been forgotten. Perhaps its healing power comes from its extraordinarily personal quality, which ...