Exploring the joy and meaning behind small traditions and rituals in everyday life
It’s the little things that lift your spirits – like pastries on a train, unplanned mini-breaks and the junk on display in shop windowsI went for a walk down my local high street with a dear friend the other day and we took the opportunity to indulge in one of our favourite silly traditions.
For some reason, this never fails to raise my spirits. So I felt a sense of validation when I read a New York Times article with the headline. “While habits help us to organise important tasks by routinising them and making them mundane, rituals imbue our lives with meaning by making certain things special,” writes Dimitris Xygalatas in his bookThat is a big reason why such behaviours often evoke a sense of foolhardy joy.
My friends Annie and Allen have a ceremonial practice involving bunking off for an impromptu night away from home, which they have dubbed “doing an Uncle Wiggily”. I had often seen their jaunts depicted on Facebook, but they had to explain the meaning of the term.book by American cousins. Wiggily turns out to be an elderly rabbit who drives a bus and whisks children off for spontaneous adventures.
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