This article lets unfold a disquieting day in the life of an individual who resides in a predominately Irish Republican and Catholic social housing estate in east Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since the signing of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Peace Agreement, this tight‐knit working‐class community, which continues to be deeply affected by the colonial and ethnonationalist conflict dubbed “the Troubles,” has faced an unbundling of shared practices, identities, and concepts. Through ethnographic description and phenomenological interpretation, this article explores the ways in which the familiar world solicits this individual into reflecting about his sense of self amidst existential uncertainty. Through familiarity, I suggest, unseen marginal possibilities—past futures—may solicit us into concernful and engaged reflection about our existence. During an intimate and precipitating conversation with an old friend, this individual becomes solicited into an altered understanding of his way of life and his place in the community.