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I came across a piece from a few years back out of the New York Times title you'll never

be famous, and that's okay, by Emily Estefahani, Smith.

It went on to explain something like this.

Today's young people desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living

a meaningful life requires doing something extraordinary and attention-grabbing, like

becoming an Instagram celebrity, a YouTube star or a best-selling author or ending a humanitarian

crisis or starting a wildly successful company that puts you on the cover of Forbes or Time

Magazine or whatever.

Of course, having an idealistic aspiration and identifying your worth with popularity

and material success is part of being young.

It is interesting, now being on the other side of youth, how if you ask a young person

to describe when they were most happy in their life, they will cite achievement milestones,

goals hit, desired positions obtained, or moments of glamour, places they went that were

Instagram worthy moments.

But if you ask an older person, they will describe moments of contentment and connectedness,

ordinary moments that were made extraordinary by catching a flash of joy, a moment of

inner stillness, or a deep intimate conversation with a friend or loved one.

Richard Rohr, who is a Franciscan friar and prolific writer, explains that we have two halves

of life.

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