"Nonevents"

"It was the easiest thing in the world to pull a trigger, a nonevent. Everything that came before, all the small things that somehow added up without her ever noticing, made the act of killing an afterthought." (83)

What struck me as particularly interesting about this passage was the fact that the technical aspect of killing could be so easily brushed off as a "nonevent". Even the act of murder, a huge event when placed in the lap of those who are not experiencing it on a daily basis as were the citizens of Sarajevo, could be completely downplayed as a completely trivial action. However, somehow all of these "nonevents" added up to become an actual event. After reading this passage, I began to think of life in terms of these "nonevents" as well. I found it interesting that when it really comes down to it, life is full of these "nonevents", moments that will not be remembered nor ever thought about again. But when thought about again, isn't our life really dependent on these insignificant moments? Aren't we really created and molded by the assumedly unimportant events that occur on a day-to-day basis? If we were only made up of the important days of our lives, wouldn't we just be pieces and fragments of a bigger picture? Just like the "nonevents" that lead up to the pulling of Arrow's trigger and the ending of another's life, these trivial moments in fact create the future that allows for the forgetting of the events that never made a difference.