Mountains and valleys

Our lives drift along with normal things happening.
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Some ups, some downs
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But nothing earth shattering to go down in human history .
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Nothing so fantastic or terrible that it'll be told for a thousand years.
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But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story tellings in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs!
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So people pretend there is drama where there is none
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That's why people invent fights.

That's why we're drawn to sports.

That's why we act like everything that happens to us is such a big deal.
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We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale.
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Aldous Huxley also warned us about the "social engineering" prohibition of "tragedy"--to make our lives consistently gray and event-less from birth to death.
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But that is not our nature.
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William Blake said it this way:
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"It is right it should be so;
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Man was made for joy and woe;
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And when this we rightly know,
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Thro' the world we safely go.
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Joy and woe are woven fine
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A clothing for the soul divine.
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Under every grief and pine

Runs a joy with silken twine."
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Yes, the events of most of our days are rather ordinary; we should look for "the remarkable" in those where we would otherwise overlook it.
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But life also has mountains and valleys, sometimes very high and sometimes very deep.
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The human challenge comes in those rarer occasions in life where (Blake again) "great things happen when men and mountains meet."
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This comes to some and not to others
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Be ready if this should be your experience