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The beauty of the human condition is that so much of our vacillation between struggle and redemption is both banal within the scope of history and endlessly novel to our personal experience.

The novelty—the childlike fascination with the peculiarity of life itself, the compulsion to propel ourselves towards the unknown, the need to solve things for the sake of solving them—is what ultimately drives us to live this life in the first place.

But the banality—the clichés, the recurring motifs, the persistent themes of what it means to live as a human—should serve to comfort us and keep us on the path we were meant to be on. It is a reminder that we were and are never alone, and no matter what path we actually end up on, we can rest easy, knowing that others have walked it before us.