30th
Don’t Always Know
Life is built to be regimented into routine. At least the way our society works. Just about everyone works a 40-hour week, but regardless, you most likely work a routine sequence of hours.
If not, hey, that’s great. Tell me sometime what you do.
Anyhow, the work routine is a tough nut to track. Outside of asking for flex schedules, and remote work, the only thing thing that could remotely change the routine is the idea that some have (and some use) of the 4 days, 10 hour work week. But then you have 10 hour work day routines. And so on.
Let suppose you can’t fight the work routine. But what can happen with the work routine is a life routine. Everything gets easy once you’re in a comfortable rhythm, knowing exactly what’s going to happen.
Always knowing isn’t always good. There are possibilities out there that get missed all the time, possibilities erased by routine. Now, if you have everything you could ever want already, great, perhaps you should return to your routine then. Or maybe you don’t. Either way, you are missing experiences just under your radar.
Next time you opt for Thursday night pizza, opt for Ethiopian. It’s awesome, trust me. And hey, if you don’t like it, you can always try Korean BBQ the next time. Use sites like grubhub.com or urbanspoon to explore some genres. Or hell, learn to cook it on your own.
And when you sit down to eat said Korean BBQ, which I love too, try changing what you do while you eat. Talk with your family if you normally watch TV. If you normally watch network TV, try Bravo, or PBS. Better yet, get the Roku player I like harping about so much and watching something different every night.
That is, unless you’re like me, and you have a baby in the house. I’m not saying I’m immune to this, but there is a LOT of routine that follows babies. They love it. I’m doing what I can, trying to find time to mix it up a bit but still do my fatherly duties.
So if you’re a little more free of responsibility, try some things. Try them now. Because you’ll probably want to have a family someday, and it will change everything for you.
So don’t always know what you’re going to do all the time. Improvise, try, like, hate, and try again. Then let me know how it is, so I can live a bit vicariously.
