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When shared rituals of remembrance lose their meaning

My best friend from high school and I have been meeting every year on the anniversary of our teacher's death — he changed both our lives — but this year she said she's not sure the ritual means anything anymore and maybe we're just holding onto something we've outgrown.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The practices meant to honor what shaped you can become empty gestures that neither person knows how to abandon.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined life as legacy?”

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