“Now I disagree......…” she said, “There is ALWAYS something new in each day, its up to us to find it! Come on Rexx! If some days are the same old same old.......ask yourself why you have shut yourself off to the outside so you don’t accept anything new to come to you....because no two days are the same!”
Yes, no two days are the same, as no two-snow flakes are the same. But the uniqueness is muted in the multitude of its redundancy. Living can, and does, fall into the routine; it is in the routine that the redundancy of acts and choices that leads one into the same old, same old. True you may learn that a tree has a leaf that you have never seen before, or that a squire has put a nest in a place that was not their before, but unless you can learn something that can help you eliminate a whole class of mistakes, or direct you life onto an easier path, make your relationships better then the thing learned has little or no value, other then as voyeuristic.
You may spend you life learning, as some people do, every thing there is to know about Moby Dick, but what you have in the end is naught but an onanistic experience. The opportunity to learn anything that help you eliminate a whole class of mistakes, or direct you life onto an easier path, make your relationships better are few and far between, and your ability to learn them is dulled by habit and the routine. Ah, but their in lies the rub, habits and routine are very necessary things, they are tools to enable a better life, but at the same time tend to blind us to other options.
When you have set your life up to run a certain way, say working and raising a family. You go to bed at the same time every day, get up at the same time every morning, go to the same places every day, work, school, and home, eat at the same time, go shopping at the same places, and so forth and so on, it is into the same old, same old that you go. Going to the recitals, to the games, running to get an unexpected need for school, paying the bills, cooking, cleaning, and on and on. Live so often gets in the way of living, and living so often blinds you to understanding, and that is because you think you know. It is so hard for anyone who knows to learn anything new.
As I have said time and again, "Way too many times making a living gets in the way of living!"
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Rexx
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