What am I doing, and why does it matter?
We construct our understanding of the world around us in the way that we assign importance and meaning to things. For many systems of belief, it is crucially important that what we do means something. The majority of our lives are lived in the minute, mundane moments. The way we sing “Happy Birthday” at family gatherings is a small reinvocation of familial ties that harken back to our childhood and a set of memories that are often recalled more as a hazy remembrance of feelings than as a crystal-clear recollection. Kicking a soccer ball or throwing a frisbee in the yard in the dusk of the mid days of Spring, when the air is finally warm but the breeze is cool, can be filled with a nostalgia that is difficult to articulate, but that harkens back to a time when that simple idle connection through recreation was a significant portion of life. Sitting in comfortable silence with a loved one, cups of coffee slowly growing cold between you, the conversation journeying into a natural pause ...
