As the new year begins and I resolve to be more mindful, more present in the moment, I consider a portion of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Commencement address at Kenyon College:
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”