Giving up on finding publication for a book project is a difficult but nearly universal experience in the writing life. (blog.nathanbransford.com)
The artists share universal experiences through their life stories and creative works: resistance, pleasure, mortality, and the hope for a better tomorrow. (art21.org)
In addition to these everyday changes, there is also the apparently universal experience that as the years pass and one grows older, time seems to speed up. (religion-online.org)