Back to a usual routine for a while.

“Routine”:

Noun
routine (plural routines)
A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure
A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically
A set piece of an entertainer's act
A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine

Surely one of the great hazards of a life. It produces a kind of mindlessness that is especially dangerous because it’s unacknowledged. When in a routine, a person feels comfortable because of the familiarity of the event or practice. That can lead to what seems to be a state of emotional well-being, but is in fact a null state. In a routine, it’s actually the lack of mental involvement that produces the easiness, the comfort and the disengagement. In this way it is like sleeping.

Routine creates opportunities to sleep through life, and although it might feel “happy” to do so, the happiness of sleep is the lowest form, and thus so with routine.

Ever get the sense that time has screamed past, that all of the sudden a week, a month, a year or years have passed and “where did they go?” Perhaps you were not awake for most of that time.

Perhaps you’re barely awake now.

Check your routines. It begins with morning coffee and leads to everything else.

Take a different route– a pattern of no pattern, a routine of no routine, see what it’s like.