Everydayness

Have you ever caught yourself doing something mundane -- like crossing the road or brushing your teeth -- and during that moment, recognized the triviality of the action and say to yourself, "Wow, this is so... ordinary."

 

In some respect, recognizing that moment for what it was lends itself a sense of profundity, if that makes sense. But I seem to be getting a lot of these insignificant moments that add up to the routine of my life's 'everydayness'.

 

Sure, life is made up of periods of time that, when broken down into small enough pieces, will yield to moments mundane enough to be relatively insignificant. A soldier fighting for his country in war should have at one point tied his shoelaces. Or a great scientific discovery would have involved countless moments of simple mathematics.

 

But I wonder how many people, when they zoom out on their ordinary moments, can claim with conviction that everything they are doing is part of a greater whole. That the summation of all their seemingly unimportant moments culminates to a grand design.

 

What ill timing to get existential! Others may hastily conclude that this particular day has something to do with this trail of thought. Alas, no. It's just a case of Mondays.

 

But for whatever it's worth, I hope you all had your share of amusement from today's occasion.