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25 June 2008

Celebrate Mundanity Day! [More:]

Okay, so I'm people-watching on a glorious sunny day here at Bagel Works.

I'm idly gazing at people walking, noting what they wear, how they move and interact, all the little things people do when they're just out and about.

And it hits me suddenly how ponderous, and truly joyous that is: how millions of people get up each morning, putter about, put on some clothes, move to the kitchen and have something to eat.

I feel strangely comforted by allowing my mind to wander in the mundane, taking in the psychic weight of a million little decisions and reactions that people take in and give off in their daily round.

Sometimes life is best lived not in the grand vision of what we're all trying to accomplish in five years, but in the fact that we regained consciousness and decided to put on pants.

So, celebrate the small and the unnoticed today. Allow yourself a small thought of "Right now I'm doing (insert commonplace, everyday action here)."

The hidden smallness of the world contains vast spaces and eons of time.



Shit's beautiful, isn't it? I mean, really, how often have we felt the breeze on our skin and not noticed how it fucking rocks? The way the sun will scatter through the leaves and branches of a tree, making it shimmer and glow. The purposefulness of a hummingbird.

Fuckin a man, fuckin a.
posted by tr33hggr 25 June | 15:24
It's like that for me almost every day. Even here at work.

Reflected light from the salt flats blasts in through the window all day long. Whenever anyone walks past the floor shakes and a Boston fern on an old-fashioned pedestal sets all its fronds to quivering. The people I work with are funny and smart and nice, and each of them types with a different finger-rhythm.
posted by tangerine 26 June | 14:12
goof thoughts, good thoughts

There is much more basic mundane all the time good/neutral living going on in the world than there is evil
posted by Miko 26 June | 17:47
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