Day 1,218: banal

Ikigai thus joins a long list of Japanese words that have been repurposed to lend an aura of ancient wisdom—and exoticism—to banal ideas.

Artwork of the day 
Evil is Banal
Marlene Dumas
Date: 1984
Style: Neo-Expressionism
Genre: self-portrait

Word of the day 
banal: boring, ordinary, and not original

Quote of the day
“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”
― Anton Pavlovič Čechov