Routine

Sometimes I wonder where people get their strength to go though with daily routine. To get up at 7 or 6:30 in a morning, get dressed, have for breakfast the same thing they had yesterday... Then again, maybe it's not strength.

I had an interesting conversation with the psychologist who specialize in child development. She said children like the same stories to be read over and over to them because it's comforting. Because when they know the story, they feel mastery over it, they feel in control -- a perfect routine if there ever was one.

To say I was surprised is to say nothing. My parents read me stories too. I loved it. And... I wanted a new story each time -- not an old one. Maybe I was born without a routine gene -- a mutation of sorts. A routine which is comforting to other people is irritating to me.

But isn't the whole world -- Western and Eastern build around a routine? How well, then, people without a routine gene survive in it? I'd like a statistic, please. We know, of cause, about successful ones - Leonardo daVinci, for once. What about the rest of us?

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