The Mundane Parts of Life are the Best Parts of Life
And they make up most of it
We snap pictures and hire photographers for the big moments in life. We go on vacations with family and take hundreds of pictures of moments that will soon be lost to time. We can’t wait to capture them for posterity. Our phone galleries are filled with special moments.
But what about the rest of life? The other 99% of it?
A few years ago I read about a little project called “1 Second Everyday.” It was based on the idea of taking a one-second clip of footage from everyday life and compiling it into a video. I did it for a couple of years and the results were mind-boggling. Every day, even if I wasn’t doing much, I’d take a video of my yard, my kids, or my drive to work.
What it showed me over time was how much of life disappears, never to be thought of again. Thousands of thoughts, images, moments, interactions — all gone.
And then I read that each time we recall a memory, our brain changes it just a little bit. Since we can’t remember every detail, our mind fills in the blanks with random information.
Scientists have learned that, as years go by, much of what we remember is false. Our brains can’t store every detail we experience, so we recall the gist of events — enough to create a…
