On Human Emotions: Inspired by the musical, The Waitress
matter by Heather Lynne Watching this music video while on the umteenth day in quarantine, I remembered something a very anti-empathetic person once said to me. One day while chatting about musicals and listening to Hamilton with two past acquaintances/friends, I recommended The Waitress to these die-hard Hamilton fans. The older woman of the two turned to me in disgust and said something like, "The Waitress?" Her words dripped in contempt, she continued, turning her face away from me. "Why would I want to listen to a musical about LITERALLY just baking stuff? They are just singing exactly what they are doing...Stupid." But isn't that was all musicals are--stories of people and them singing about their lives? Haha. There's so much complexity to the human emotion that every story captivates a person in different ways. The raw honestly of this character is seen and felt within the metaphor of baking pies. (Goodness, could my negat