A Line Drawn Through Time
Coherence is what the human mind longs for most. When life lacks meaning, it’s often because experiences feel unstrung. Experience, by itself, is inert. It is structureless data. The act of tracing a line through the events of our lives is what makes life feel like a life, as opposed to a series of disjointed impressions.
Meaning doesn’t always live
... See moreLife is not a story that builds to a climax. It is a story that meanders. In the first half, we accumulate resources—skills, friends, status—and, in the second half, we lose them, bit by bit. This is nothing like a traditional narrative. Life is a series of vaguely connected moments.
In a disconnected story like that, meaning is produced in another... See more
In a disconnected story like that, meaning is produced in another... See more