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I don’t think the things we do are trivial. If you think the things you do are trivial, then you’re either bringing a trivial attitude towards them, or you’re not doing the things you should be doing. Or you’re not framing the situation appropriately. My depressive clients, for example, would say, I can’t really figure out why anything is worth doing if we’re all going to die in the end. I said, I think it was last night in my lecture, I said, if a baby’s crying in front of you and you know it’s cold or hungry, you don’t cease to attend to its distress because the sun is going to envelop the earth in four billion years. You think, that’s not a good excuse. Well, why not? Why not use that time frame? And your instinctive answer is, well, that’s just not the appropriate time frame. And so I would say, well, if you have habitual inclination to apply to your own life a time frame or an evaluative framework that reduces what you’re doing to meaninglessness, then you should consider whether or not you’re using the wrong time frame. If it all of a sudden becomes meaningless, pointless, you’re suffering in the work you have to do, well, find a time frame that is appropriate, you know, sufficient unto the day.