The Routine Life

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The Routine Life
“I live a very normal life. I have friends and I’ve always gone to school. The part that’s not normal is that I’ve been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it’s completely normal to me”. This statement by Ashley Olsen must be relatable to most of us and why wouldn’t it be? After all, it’s the same monotonous life most of us, if not all of us, go through. Now the question arises, is life just a monotonous routine/chore? Certainly not. It largely depends on how we perceive it. For some life is all but struggle work and progress; for others it is about philosophy or art or fun. For philosophers like Aristotle life is about happiness, to which I largely agree. But still we cannot deny that a significant number of people find life to be monotonous and devoid of purpose, and it is reflected in the rising graph of mental health issues and suicides.
          Yet, the question remains why life is so monotonous? It is largely because we need to follow the routine most of the time. A routine is a set of customary and often mechanically performed procedures or activities but not all routines, lead to the productive outcomes.
“How often do you log in to your Facebook for no reason and check the news feed?” I’m pretty sure most of us do. We feel the urge to do the things that doesn’t make sense, with the time we don’t have, for the pleasure we don’t get. It’s absurd but subconsciously we have been doing these “useless” stuffs as a routine. “When was the last time you pursued your hobby?” It certainly must have been quite a while. With the passage of time and all-pervading technology, we have lost the sense of what we genuinely love doing. As a result, life has become clumsy and boring for most of us.
            With less “me time” for the group transitioning from teenage to adulthood, suicide has been the third-leading cause of death for people aged 15 to 24 alone. About 20 percent of all teens experience depression. But how do we cope with this monotonous life? Well, it’s not as hard and boring as it seems to be. Firstly, make a sensible plan, a plan with tasks that can be achievable. You can start by following small plans and accomplishing small tasks. This way you’ll be able to achieve more by not being frustrated. You can also create a to-do list and a list of your top priorities and do stuffs on the hierarchy of priorities.
Secondly, stop procrastinating, this leads to increase in work load and thus increase in burden. Start by doing things straight away, even when you’re not ready for it. This way you’ll save time and have more time for yourself, and you can use this time for pursuing your hobby or having your own “me time”. Thirdly, you can reshuffle the ways you do things. Like for example, if you work out in the morning for a change go workout in the evenings, go and talk with new people at your workplace with different world views and attitudes; hanging out with the same people all the time may lead to a state of social stagnation.
At the outset, don’t subconsciously torture yourself by doing things that disturb your peace of mind, and in that time go for a bon voyage! A trip with no planning except for a reservation for the first night in a hotel. Don’t follow the beaten path, find other things to do. That’ll bring an end to monotonous routine for sure.
Last but not the least, develop an attitude to accept change; when you’re more accepting you tend to have a happier outlook of your life. I know how many ups and downs we go through during our teenage being a teenager myself, but believe me the change that worries you so much now is not the end of the world. You’ll be smiling if you look back at some point later.
Scientifically, it takes 21 days to break a habit. So, how about making a new one which will not be monotonous?

Life is beautiful and interesting but i'm sure we come across many ups and downs throughout and live a  boring and monotonous part of it. I've experienced this and have come up with  a solution as this article, and it did work for me! Hope it does the same for you guys too. Good day :)


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