Life is composed of details

 

so does everything, of course (whole comprises of parts),

but LIFE is much more about the details,

because LIFE is lived IN THE MOMENT

 

i.e. life experience is IN THE MOMENT, not in abstract

(so you can have the most glorious life story, the most glorious “life outcome” — but have a shitty, miserable day-to-day life)

Life is experienced through the moment-to-moment details

 

Therefore if you neglect the DETAILS of life — you materially set back your life experience

 

And that comes on top the USUAL degree to which being SLOPPY about the details can ruin the final product

Sometimes the details subordinate to the whole, yes. The whole dictates the details,

But sometimes the whole is all but determined by the key details

In which case sloppiness about those details is imparted on the whole, or even compounds

(e.g. one unreliable part multiplies with another unreliable part, making the whole still far more unreliable than the sum of the unreliability of its parts)

 

And then there’s the way in which this sloppiness poisons your entire attitude

If you’re careless, sloppy, ungrateful about the DETAILS of your life…

….you’re UNLIKELY to approach the “WHOLE” of your life with elevated care and seriousness

Therefore the “details are subjugated by the grand vision” is NOT really the case, in your life

What really happens is that the whole is low-rent, shoddy, sloppy, unserious — because so is every element which comprises it

And that happens usually in spite of grand proclamations of ambition… or sometimes even because of it

Because again: it simply does not follow that one would seriously realise a grand vision over the long-term — while being inattentive and sloppy about its fruits and manifestations and day-to-day aspects

 

Indeed talking is easy,

A “grand plan” MAY succeed, not because of “not being distracted by unnecessary detail”, which is the excuse we’d give to our sloppiness,

not because of it, but in spite of it

It may succeed, by mere chance,

then it’s wasted anyway

It’s almost as though what’s unearned really doesn’t last, truly easy comes easy goes

 

That would be the final caveat

Effort, attention, is not merely the necessary external input, i.e. what we must produce to set in motion the necessary chain of events,

It’s also the necessary INTERNAL INPUT,

so that we EVEN ACTUALLY APPRECIATE that which we strived to obtain

so that we actually even COMMIT

 

Thus it will ultimately boil down to the ATTENTIVE, SERIOUS ATTITUDE being not the means — BUT the end

It will ultimately not matter WHAT you obtained and if you succeeded — but if you were SERIOUS AND ATTENTIVE AND CONSCIOUS

Because only then will it even be worth it

(irrespective of the fact that it’s then that it is likely to actually be obtained)

 

Therefore details are the perfect vehicle through which to express one’s seriousness and care and attention

Then again those really are the only vehicle — since it’s the details which are experienced day to day — which is where ATTENTION lives

And this is the final reason why details are so crucial, IN PARTICULAR for the problem of LIFE-living

 

Never compromise on your LIFE-details,

The most crucial thing to do is to LIVE WELL NOW

The rest really is quite downstream from that