Jonathan Fields

I mean, what you're describing is really interesting because, you know, I think if we think about the rituals that many of us have experienced in our lives, if we look back over time, you kind of define them as like the big four, right?

You know, there's one for birth, there's one for reaching adulthood, there's one for partnership or marriage, and there's one for death.

right and those are based on life happening unfolding in a fairly certain way um and we've we've outgrown that like it's not that we've individually outgrown that the way that we live our lives have uh has just changed dramatically you know so instead of you know saying well we need these four rituals to mark the sort of like four major parts of life you're kind of saying life is now much more complicated it's not one track it's multi-track it's

So many different things and the rituals that we've inherited that have been handed down to us cover for things that, well, you know, at least we know two of them are going to happen in our lives.

We'll be born and we're going to die.

And, you know, but what about everything else?

And what about often the sadness or the loss or the fear or the angst that goes along with all of these different moments in a really complex life now?

What about rituals for them?

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In addition to that, we're living a lot longer these days than a lot of the rituals that were handed down to us accommodated.

So it's like we need a lot more.

I love this idea that this is a bottom-up experience.

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.