Back to a usual routine for a while.<\/p>\n
“Routine”:<\/p>\n
Noun\r\nroutine<\/em> (plural routines)\r\nA course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure\r\nA set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically\r\nA set piece of an entertainer's act\r\nA set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine<\/pre>\nSurely 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Perhaps you’re barely awake now.<\/p>\n
Check your routines. It begins with morning coffee and leads to everything else.<\/p>\n
Take a different route– a pattern of no pattern, a routine of no routine, see what it’s like.<\/p>\n
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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 … Continue reading