Jonathan Fields

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.

Walk me through them again.

Okay, this is kind of fun because there's something I've been working on for a while now.

I have alluded to here and there in conversations, but never actually just outright own that I literally just finished last week.

And that is purely for the fun.

Without any push or idea that this is something that I would ever publish, I decided a little while back that I want to try my hand at fiction, at writing a novel.

Secretly writing a novel.

Every morning, 7.30, 9 a.m.

at the coffee shop, I'm just writing, writing, writing, writing, writing.