World Wide Well
Saul Williams, a poet I like very much, said that his art comes from self-exploration and that by looking deeper in to yourself you are actually peering in to all of humanity; beneath the skin and hair and teeth we are all the same being. I think that's an interesting way of looking at things. It's like having a well in your back yard, and your neighbor does too; though you drink from different wells it's really the same water. When you go deep enough we all drink the same water.
Our experiences may be unique in context, but they're not unusual in the grand scheme of things. Everyone has dealt with love and loss, for example, and how we choose to engage these things might be different from others around us but we're not globally unique in the way we do it. People have been doing it that way for centuries. What makes observational humor work is this very mechanism, the fact that they're talking about things we can all relate to.
I say take a sip and know that you're part of some greater cosmic encounter than you normally choose to realize. You may be alone when you drink, but you never drink alone.