After these few months of reading with first graders, I made a comment about how well they were doing. The response was, “some are doing great, and some are just reading words.” That caused me to think about many conversations with adults. Often we talk to fill the silence, not to communicate an idea. We use words and sentences which, on closer examination, convey little but disconnected words and sentences. If there is an idea buried in them, it is often quite vague.
Of course I then proceeded to extrapolate to life in general. A vague and disconnected stream of conscientiousness about how my actions are often just that, a series of disconnected activities. I think there is a place for such an activity, but I also think it should be embedded in a “Purpose Driven Life.” As with organizations, I don’t think it is frivolous to consider the question, “why do I exist?”
Do we live a life of words, or of complete sentences?