What if your life turned out to be ‘ordinary’? Slow down and relish this – it might even be enchanting (opens in new tab)

Being unremarkable is often seen as a sign of moral failure – yet finding joy in the everyday can lead to a mindful, luminous experienceMaking sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday lifeLately I’ve been playing with a thought experiment: what if I was told the rest of my life would be completely ordinary? Not bad, just unremarkable.My immediate response is, “Well, ordinary is better than awful” (forever the optimist), and then almost immediately...