picture this scenario. We notice emergency lights ahead. The oncoming traffic lane is shut down and looks like a debris field. Two mangled cars lay in ruins, and there are still figures draped with blue blankets surrounded by somber EMTs. Do you feel badly? Unless you’re a sociopath, of course you do.
Now…
You look into that same oncoming lane, and one of the cars you recognize. It belongs to the nice family you chatted with in line at Wal Mart when you had to wait 40 minutes in the customer service line. You even helped the dad load groceries and put away their cart so the mom could buckle in their babies. You had to stop for gas, but 30 minutes ago that family was alive and well and now the coroner’s van is showing on the scene.
Before you cared…now you are connected.
http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/in-the-beginning-part-one-normal-world/
It's the difference between your audience knowing something's a tragedy and knowing why something's a tragedy. The latter hits home.
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