Benchmarks. It’s all about benchmarks. Did I get down to the coast? Did I get out for a while with my honey ( my wife!), Did I get some decent work done in the shop? There’s more, but those are the biggies. I generally sleep well, eat normally, and so on. I don’t take those things for granted, but they are part of my normal routine. And I do like routine.
Detour!
My routine is my shield against craziness. When I was younger, I lived a crazy existence. Lots of excitement, too much association with nutso people who might pop in at two a.m. and ask if you wanted to go on a detour to some weird place. Jeez! I shouldn’t have mentioned that! It brought to mind that weird as all hell trip to Muleshoe, via Pittsburgh and all points in between. Yeech!
There was the incident where we were doing finger painting in primary colors all over each other, and…..enough of that. The next morning, my fingerprints were everywhere! Absolutely everywhere.
Now you understand why I like routine so much! I worry sometimes that I’ll let my determination falter, let my guard down, and someone will show up from the old days.
Off we’d go, two geriatric geezers looking for trouble.
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Interesting that you use routine to find calm. I try to reject routine to add spice. I spent way too many of my younger years trying to be compliant and meet others’ expectations (the opposite of your younger years). Now I am trying to make up for it.
Everyone has a different thing that fixes it for them. My chaos years made me yearn fo stability.
I have never minded routine. My brain is constantly on one side trip or another. Today I wanted to learn how they figured out the stuff that is in the shot I had last week. Absolutely incredible, amazing, humbling, inspiring and damn I’m glad those people showed up at their labs with their questions and curiosity. It made me wonder what I’ve done with my life. I think routine is liberating because within it there is freedom.
Routine is nice when its what you choose. Thats the important part.