The article and your comment reminds me of one of my favourite songs which is a beautiful tribute to the ordinary - even dull - moments that make up life.

The song starts with a man in his deathbed whose life flashes before his eyes. As he is about to pass, he pleads with God to have one last chance to write down his ordinary life from start to end:

  Please! Seeing my life like this
  It made me think
  I could state succinctly everything life is
  If you gave me ink.
  And I could maybe print every speech and thought,
  And release my plot on these streets I’ve walked,
  With a piece of chalk.
  To paint the sharpest image of a heart
  *Cuz as much as art can mimic
  Nothing’s as real as a life told from start to finish*

He writes his story down on the floor of his town, and when he is done he finally passes. The next day people find his writing and are enthralled with what he described, moved by the candid retelling of an ordinary life:

  People came from everywhere
  They read the story through for days
  It wasn’t nothing new or strange
  Still they were moved and amazed
  *It wasn’t the places he’d been or the people he’d met
  It was the spaces between and the secrets he’d kept.*
  They wept joyfully, for the greatest story no one told
  Was just the story of an ordinary man growing old

I love the emphasised lines. People focus on the big moments - where you go, who you meet - yet what actually captivated the readers were the small moments that fill the gaps between everything else. That's where the real life is.

The song is "A Story No-One Told" by Shad https://genius.com/Shad-a-story-no-one-told-lyrics