Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.