I might have written about this before.

I heard somewhere that there is no such thing as an event. That events only occur in retrospect. Life isn't a series of events, but the opposite: a series of not-events, then compiled in hindsight into themes or patterns that we believe shaped our lives. Funny, then, how we like to read about events - good fiction works that way.

Maybe that's why I like movies like 21 Grams and There Will Be Blood. They don't offer any sort of conclusion or normal catharsis. They have events and plot because fiction mandates it, but in the end, nothing is solved, because life starts the next day.

Our lives cannot be summed up into a problem and solution. If we find our ultimate conflict, and resolve it, then we might as well die, because life starts again tomorrow.