When Aberrant becomes the Usual

The routines in any of the myriad phases of your life are monotonous. Life moves on a smooth track in a set of routines from morning to bed. The time you rise, the time you go to bed, the same cycle of work everyday. Then suddenly you step out of that monotonous phase to stir everything up and metamorphosise through the painful change. This at the beginning has something new to offer everyday.

Slowly but surely this new phase also starts becoming monotonous and life even with all its struggles becomes boring. The aberrant suddenly becomes the usual. Returning home at 9 p.m. Looking after your own clothes. So many other such menial tasks you never knew existed before. All this becomes a part of your life and is a part of your usual day to day job.

All these changes made to our lives are irreversible. Recreating the old times is impossible. Even if you go back to the old times, you'll notice everyone else has moved on to a new life. Now you'll have everything that you didn't had then but it can never equal the amount of fun you had. The fun is because of your friends, those special relationships.

Now everything is more formal, sophisticated. Its like a free bird has now learnt to live in the cage, to survive. The free spirit is intimidated by the high rise buildings, exquisite interiors, suited individuals and submits to the orthodox.

Sometimes you'll break out of this monotony and realize that this wasn't what you expected of your life and is all this really worth it? and why you are doing it? Then again you'll get back to doing your work and laugh off the past dreams as impractical thoughts. You rarely look at where your life is heading but fervously push to move forward on the unknown road. This madly rush to the unknown may prove to be the spiral in which you finally collapse. At the beginning I'll try to break out of this but between me and the orthodox, the battle is tough.

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So we must rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

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