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Objective Xavier de Maistre discovered a new meaning to life. Rather than looking right through something he would take the object and change the angle, so he could better see what its meaning was. Take for instance his sofa, which to most people would just be an object to sit on. De Maistre would see it as more than wood and fabric, as a part of his life. The sofa was memorabilia that he could take with him through life. Every time he looked at that sofa he could appreciate it not for its purpose, rather for the value of time he spent on it. Xavier took his routine and turned it into his adventure. He found a new life inside