There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved. . . that day, you die as a writer.