Ultimate Awe

I think we build up awe to only happen at moments of high sensory stimulation. I've decided there are moments of awe that I'm calling "ordinary awe." Things we all share like being in awe of a puppy running around in the snow without a care in the world while we are trudging home from school. How he is so warm-hearted in the cold. This type of awe equates to wonder.
But there is another type of awe, it is almost a common jealousy we all share, we look for awe in the ordinary things because we are looking for "Ultimate awe." Ultimate awe is the peak of emotion and understanding being reconciled. It is a place that is very seldom reached.
Plays and especially musicals are one way to produce "Ultimate Awe." They transform ordinary awe-inspiring things into one awe-inspiring experience. I think to experience awe you use or want to use all of the senses. Musicals can do this for us as they reproduce a heightened version of reality.  For example the song "Let it Go" in the new Disney movie "Frozen" appeals to our emotions.






We initially get lost in the moment and desire to vocalize our wants like Elsa does. We want to take off our outward facades, and be accepted for who we are. We feel a connection to her feelings because she's like us and at the same time we are in awe of her spontaneity and recklessness.

We progress to awe of how she, the song, the spectacle, has affected us. Perhaps next we stand in awe of how our emotional connection was created. And then, finally, we are in awe of what this means to us. I think this last realization is "Ultimate Awe," when the spectacle connects to the bigger outside world.
We realize this scene means more than to let ourselves go. The song relates to overcoming disabilities, emotional distress, loneliness, fear and realizing how to come into your own skin. We gain a new understanding of others and ourselves.  We gain a connection to others. and That is Ultimate Awe.
Ultimate Awe is in the spectacles of life, because what is presented to us with enough intensity leaves an impression.