The moments
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The moments
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 moreWe ask too much of our lives, sometimes. We wait for a sense of meaning to stride onstage in a cape, announcing itself in love everlasting or revolutionary purpose. We want to escape the senseless things that happen to us, or find a way to resolve sense into them. We want our actions and experiences to feel victorious, purposeful in their own... See more
A Line Drawn Through Time
“The fugitive moments in between our lifelong undertakings, whatever their ultimate worth, may be what we are searching for all along.”
- In This Essay I Will: On Distraction
Maybe we find life in the little pockets that swell between our ambitions.