TITLE: The Meaning of Life
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: October 22, 2014  4:32 PM
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... is determined by the moments when something happens.

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 In the end, a person doesn't view his [or her] life as merely
 the average of its moments -- which, after all, is mostly
 nothing much, plus some sleep.  Life is meaningful because it
 is a story, and a story's arc is determined by the moments
 when something happens.
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So writes Atul Gawande in <EM>Being Mortal: Medicine and What
Matters in the End</EM>.  When I am deep in a semester, preparing
a course and doing all the things that a department head must do,
both big small, the pace of life reaches a point where my mind is
prone to go into cruise control.  That's when I need to remind
myself not to let my story become a stretch of uninterrupted
white noise.  I have to consciously step out of the blur and make
something worthwhile -- and memorable -- happen.
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