This connects with the fact that we don't have infinite time in a day, month, year to do things. We must sacrifice 99% of all possible activities all the time.
Most of our daily activities are also non-unique and don't feel grand. Eating, sleeping, relaxing, cleaning, meeting with friends. These are all things we all need to do and are less of the goal and more of a basis for a solid foundation to achieve other goals.
I often wonder how successful people manage their foundational activities. And by successful, I don't mean popularly successful. But people really content with their lives and happy.
I'll use your comment, which I agree with, to spring board into deeper thoughts I have about frequency since I love to think about this kind of stuff.
There are frequencies within frequencies. For example, yes you eat every day, but how often do you eat healthy? How frequently are your meals junk? How frequently do you eat fish or red meat? How frequently do you eat foods high in fiber? How frequently do you eat sugar? I think it is useful to consider the fractal nature of frequency in this way. Repeated activities "break down" into smaller frequencies and "add up" into larger frequencies. (Consider how this relates to cheat days in diet plans).
There are also coincidences, and I mean that in the sense that some frequencies overlap. Consider eating, you can combine that with meeting friends. It's like a two-for-one activity - you satisfy both habits simultaneously. How often do you eat, how often do you meet friends, how often do you eat with friends?
The above ideas mean that even simple foundational activities are rich with possibility.
I often wonder how successful people manage their foundational activities. And by successful, I don't mean popularly successful. But people really content with their lives and happy.