Friday, September 26, 2014

Return of the blog - The routine -1

I have been wanting to revive my blog for a while now. My last post was a story that I had been mulling over for months and I got myself to write it only nine months after graduation. Today, its seven months after I started working and I have gained more personal revelations and motivations within this period than the four years that I spent in college.  

During college, I considered the world to be divided into two groups; those who hated routines (A's) and those who embraced it (B's). The A's were those who could not keep doing the same things everyday, they voluntarily embraced the chaos that was life and did not try to bend it to their will. They gained new experiences everyday, learnt new things every second and never got caught repeating the same activities within a week. In college, I fancied myself to be an A'er. I am quite sure many of my friends felt the same too. The feeling of belonging to the "routine-haters" group seemed to fuel people's desire to be different from the rest of the crowd.  

The other side (B's) did not mind doing the same thing repeatedly every week. I have often been amazed by their capability to stay sane even when in a rut. If I consider the B's now, I guess it just gives them control over several aspects of their lives. They know that they have to wake up at 730 am on a weekday and they are okay with it. They know that they can wake up in the afternoon on weekends and they are okay with it. In this dynamic world, wouldn't it feel nice to have a minuscule amount of control over our lives?

PS- To those whom I will force to read this blog post :p and the other non-existent readers. When I started writing this post, I realised it was going to occupy more space than I wanted it to. So I decided to split into two posts. 

PPS- HEY! IF G.R.R Martin can do it, I can too! :p