I skimmed because frankly I'm too jaded to fully read something that doesn't start out with an introduction, telling me what's up ahead and why I should care and instead goes on and on for many pages.
The parts that I skimmed felt like the thoughts I tend to have regarding big ideas that haven't come together quite yet. There's definitely something, but it's elusive because something is missing, something big enough that it tends to cut many pages into a paragraph. That's what this feels like to me.
"In conclusion, drink tea, together with your friends; pay attention to the tea, and to your friends, and pay attention to your friends paying attention to the tea. Therein lies the meaning of life."
This is a terribly obnoxious thing to say to somebody after they've supposedly spent 20 minutes reading your article. The meaning of life?
I once read a book when I was 20 that blew my mind so hard that I spent the next year in varying degrees of telling others THEY need to do and think like I do because clearly, this feels so right and it felt so wrong prior. It was like falling in love with a new outlook on life, the infatuation takes a while to fade away.
If you're not careful, you can develop a guru complex where you start thinking you possess knowledge others need to urgently know about. That's where sentences like 'therein lies the meaning of life' come from I find.
That feeling will pass and you'll look back on having written words that imply you have life figured out and shake your head in disbelief :)