I really enjoyed reading Highman's essay- I felt as though the mundanity that we are subject to in routine really is a large part of our lives, and we should be able to acknowledge this, and be able to possibly veer away from our routines in order to add to our experience.
Routine makes life predictable, and it gives us order and control. How often do you find yourself taking a different way to work, or a different way to class? How often do you wake up t the same time, eat at the same time, do things according to a set schedule? Each and every day, people are living and performing their everyday routines, interacting with the same people and following the same pattern of routine.
When routine is enacted upon us, we can finally relax (309). The stress and the worry is brushed away, because we created that sense of security for us through routine. We are the rhythm of the machine, we are the assembly line.
This is is; this is life. This is all we have to look forward to. The routines that we are tired of performing, and the detours of these routines we never take the chance to take, is what is slowly making this world miserable. This isn't a phase, this isn't something we grow out of. We lose old problems and gain new ones- bills, jobs, family, politics instead of school, popularity, tv shows and who knows what else will be popular in 20 years.
I would be interested to know what you mean by veering away from our routines, and in what ways that adds to our experience in everyday life? I think it's also interesting you mention that routines are never something we "grow out of" especially because Highmore talks a lot about routines in terms of child care.
ReplyDeleteI think it was interesting when you said "the routines that we are tired of performing, and the detours of these routines we never take the chance to take, is what is slowly making this world miserable". When you say detours, do you mean trying to change up daily routines? I do agree with you when you say that we lose old problems and gain new ones. That was a good point to make.
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