Folded thought of the day:

Certainly one of the biggest and most profound challenges 
I believe we face at this time in history is, given all 
of the stimuli we are bombarded with every day, figuring 
out what is truly valuable in one's life.  There are so 
many meaningless things which we place incredible importance 
upon.  Just walk around and look at a given situation and 
ask yourself if it makes sense.

Here's an example.  I was heading to work the other day 
and I observed a fashion photo shoot.  The model was this 
dude who looked like he stepped off the cover of GQ (now 
that I think of it, I'm not even sure he was three-dimensional).  
And next to the guy was this dog that looked like it had been 
groomed for about 3 hours.  And the guy was looking "faraway" 
in this meaningless serious way.  And all I could think to 
myself was that what I am seeing has absolutely nothing to 
do with anything in this world.  But some person will see 
one of those photos in some fashion magazine and will think 
something like "Oh what a beautiful dog and that good-looking 
guy looks so serious and he must me deep and I'd better go 
out and buy something that makes me feel the way this photo 
makes me feel."

Walking around wearing expensive sunglasses and looking 
cool is not important.  Walking around with your child 
on your shoulders and laughing together makes sense.  
Being a rock star is not important.  Writing a song for 
someone you love and sharing it with them makes sense.  
Making money for money's sake is not important.  Making 
an honest living that allows you to build a meaningful 
place for yourself in the world makes sense.  Fashion is 
not important.  Wearing an old leather jacket you bought 
10 years ago at a thrift shop because you absolutely 
had to have it makes sense.

I'm sure you see where I'm heading with this and I could 
probably fill about 20 pages coming up with examples 
but I'd rather have you send me some things you see which 
you observe as meaningless and then juxtapose them with 
a sample incident that makes sense.  Does that make sense?  
I hope so.