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A life lived with sensitivity, intention, and a desire for meaning is rarely as glamourously momentous and glorified as we make it out to be in our minds. For some reason, we want to believe that all the important work done in this world must be akin to saving a child from drowning in the ocean, to giving an inspirational or motivational speech to millions, to dying on the battlefield. The truth is that much of the work we do in this life is, on the surface, mundane and banal. And a life lived with sensitivity, intention, and a desire for meaning is simply realizing that in those seemingly mundane and banal moments, just how much of an impact we can make in this world through our actions. It is to catch a glimpse of this unceasing and tirelessly tangled web of cause and effect, wherein we can decide to spurn or to embrace our role.