Routine. This is one word that we all associate with boredom, stagnancy. I feel this is true to some extent. Routine may make life more predictable, enable you to plan for your retirement, get an insurance plan, increase your savings account balance....blah! The list is pretty long.
But can routine give you peace of mind? Or a sense of accomplishment? Some of you might answer in the affirmative. Only I beg to disagree. Sure, we cannot live a nomadic life and enjoy the luxuries, comforts of our cities. But I believe that routine could limit your achievements, your potential if you adhere to it blindly. We should be constantly or atleast periodically look at those factors which bottleneck our creative faculties. These could be anything - an uninteresting job, a relationship thats not working, or plain lethargy.
Yes, that would mean taking risks and giving up on comforts but that would also make you feel all the more alive. Someone who takes risks and loses is always wiser/ more satisfied than the one who does not leave his own boundaries.
Just as still water starts to smell foul, to be successful you have to keep moving. So maybe getting that big boring job or staying in the same situation will not help u achieve your life's purpose. I think the day we accept our problems as bigger than our will or believe that stagnacy is part of our lives - I.e. the day we succumb to routine for good, is the day we die - in the sense of capabilities, new possibilities. Then all we have got are these two words - "what if...".
