Jonathan Fields

Like there's a renaissance happening where we're not waiting around to figure out what is the right ritual for this.

We're basically saying –

I'm going to just make what I need to help me through this particular moment in time.

If it doesn't exist, then it's about to exist.

We're not waiting for institutions to deem this is the thing to do.

We're not waiting for dogma that's been passed on for generations to tell us this is how we do this thing.

We're kind of saying, this is different.

I don't see a real obvious thing that everyone does when this happens.

I'm going to do it because I need it.

It's like there's something that's common in all of us that says like in these moments, there's something missing that I need right now in this moment, whether it's to serve a purpose of closure or gathering or togetherness or ease a sense of aloneness.

There's something I need that ritual seems to solve for.

And what you're describing is people are not waiting for somebody else to tell them what to do.

They're saying like, this is what I'm going to do, which is empowering.

Yeah.

I mean, it makes so much sense to me.

And I love the fact that it serves multiple purposes and often multiple people at the same time.

Let's get into the how of this.

Let's say somebody is joining us for this conversation and they're in a moment.

It's a moment which is maybe really big for them, but maybe not so big for other people.

But for them, whatever it is, a leaving, a coming, like the five different categories you described above.