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Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.

Love, once measured by presence and understanding, is now quantified by response times and message frequency. Love shouldn’t be a quiet battle over who cares more. It should be felt in the spaces between words, in the trust that lingers even in silence–even miles apart. The right person won’t demand proof of love; they’ll know it’s there–unspoken b... See more

It seems as though people have forgotten that relationships are meant to enrich our lives, not consume them.