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I came across a piece from a few years back out of the New York Times titled, You'll Never Be Famous, and that's OK, 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,

it's 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.

The first half is focused around establishing your identity

and experiencing and expressing your ego. It is mostly spent pursuing external gains. The second

half of your life is spent pursuing inner gains, those things that fulfill a sense of

significance, meaning, and soulful fulfillment. The most meaningful lives are often not the

extraordinary ones. They are the ordinary ones lived with dignity. We all have the ability to

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