Here is what I got from Waiting for Godot. The whole play is two guys waiting for Gotot. They have a few visitors and a few leaves grow on a tree, but nothing else really happens. Godot doesn't even show. The prompt asked us to focus on the reading experience, not what everything actually means. My experience with the reading was that there were some really interesting sayings, really interesting comments about life. I am not aware of what certain parts mean, but find meaning from little things they say.
The back cover of the book gave me a clue. It mentioned existentialism (the idea that life itself has no meaning). So the actual story of Waiting for Godot was pedestrian but still offered lessons to learn. Sometimes life is the same way. It is pedestrian and boring, but can still be filled with meaning if we look hard enough for it. We can take lessons and meaning from the experiences of everyday life. It doesn't take a monumental experience to find meaning.
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