#19 “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? ” Phil - Groundhog Day 1993
I always feel like I am awake when asleep, and asleep when awake. Like I have rested, yet, I'm always tired. I drove this morning down the same freeway, and thought.. wasn't I just on this road? .... I, as a creature of habit, are stuck on a routine that enables the many variables in my life to meet the expectations of others. I always come through.
Do we enable our routines, and our expectations of our day run our schedule? Could we honestly not do our routine, and the variables affected will never change?
Think about your routine, could you really do it backwards and enlist the same productivity and end result? As the day progresses, things happen out of the routine, we make adjustments to the reactive components, and sometimes freak out to the ones we can't control. If we could control our entire day and reiterate the same routine, would we be happy? I couldn't image reliving the same day over and over and having to re-prove my existence.
So, if you could pick one day and re-live it for the rest of your life, what would that day be?
I can't remember how many times I said, "this is the best day of my life". Did I really mean it? If I had to actually take that day and re-do it over and over and over....would it really be the best day of my life? Who makes us aware of the best day of our lives? I was curious if we knew we'd only have one day to repeat forever what choice would we be given, or would it be chosen for us.
Do you compete your daily routine?
Wake up, shower, coffee, kids, drive, school, work, drive, kids, dinner, baths, bed. And, of course everything in the middle. But the times we step out of our routines seem to me, creates the best return. The daily surprise of something new, the daily "aha" of something exciting. The highs and the lows, and the smile on my family's face when I walk in the door.
We each live for something, what do you live for? Would it matter if you weren't a component of someone else's routine?
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