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Your universal themes


Here is a random list of themes I have collected. See if any relate to your

own story.


Abandonment

Abundance/scarcity

Abuse of power

Acceptance

Accomplishment

Action

Adventure

Anger

Anxiety

Apathy

Appreciation

Attitude

Balance

Beauty

Belonging

Bravery

Brotherhood

Cause / Effect

Challenge

Change

Childhood

Choices

Collaboration

Coming of Age

Commitment

Communication

Community

Compassion

Compromise

Concern

Conflicting ideas

Conformity

Connections

Consequences

Consideration

Cooperation

Corruption

Courage

Culture

Curiosity

Cycles

Denial

Determination

Devotion

Differences

Dignity

Discovery

Eating

Empathy

Enthusiasm

Environment

Escape

Excellence

Exploration

Facing Fear

Failure

Fairness

Faith

Fame

Family

Fate

Fear

Forgiveness

Freedom

Friendship

Generations

Generosity

Goals

Gratitude

Greed

Grief

Hate

Heritage

Heroism

Holidays

Honesty

Honor

Hope

Humility

Humor

Idealism

Identity

Imagination

Independence

Individuality

Influence

Ingenuity

Initiation

Innocence

Innovation

Inspiration

Integrity

Interdependence

Isolation

Justice

Kindness

Leadership

Loneliness

Loss

Love

Loyalty

Manipulation

Memory

Nature

New Experiences

Obligation

Opportunity knocks

Optimism

Order

Origins

Parallelism

Parenthood

Patience

Patriotism

Patterns

Peace

Peer Pressure

Perseverance

Persistence

Perspectives

Physical exercise

Possibilities

Power

Prejudice

Pride

Problem Solving

Reciprocity

Redemption

Regret

Reflection

Relationships

Religion

Resolution

Resourcefulness

Respect

Responsibility

Revenge

Romance

Saving

Secrecy

Security/safety

Self Awareness

Self Discipline

Self Esteem

Self Respect

Self Sacrifice

Self-Control

Sensitivity

Sharing

Social Change

Social contact

Status

Structure

Success

Survival

Sympathy

Systems

Teamwork

Tolerance

Tradition

Traditions

Tragedy

Tranquility

Transformation

Uncertainty

Vengeance

Virtue

War

Willpower

Winners

Wisdom

Work

Worries









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