Oct 12, 2016

the humanity of it all

The beautiful thing about meaning is that, the further you take it, the deeper it gets.

As you move along on a project you love, its significance becomes more and more – well, significant. There’s more memory, more emotion, more life.

And still, you’re a person. You celebrate life. It’s not just about the projects you love, it’s about birth, death, anniversaries, brunch, afternoons on the beach — the things that don’t scale.

Person-to-person interaction.

The things you can’t make bigger — and you wouldn’t want to.

Meaning can expand, but people stay their size. And that dichotomy keeps us in check.

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