Mundane affairs

Do you go through your days without remembering much about it? You wake up in the morning, get ready for work, drive through traffic to work, spend the whole day at work, drive home through traffic, spend some time with your family, if you have one, else spend some time eating dinner alone in front of the TV. Then you go to sleep and repeat the whole process again the next day.

After a while, you get used to your routine and you don't even think about it anymore. It's like you're on autopilot. And I know people who have been doing this for years. The same old thing for more than 10 years.

Personally, I think it terrifies me. Simply terrifying.

Because I'm on the same road as those people.

There are times in my life when I reflect upon it before I go to sleep at night (when you sleep alone, you tend to think a lot before you go to sleep). I would lie down on my big bed, contemplating about my plans, and wondering about the future. And sometimes I think about my day, and the day before, and realised that nothing much is happening to me. Oh, don't get me wrong now, I do get the occasional excitement and fun. I do something different sometimes, like instead of eating oatmeal for lunch, I eat Chipsmore or Oreos. And of course there is always the TV shows to excite me enough for the night.

Pathetic isn't it?

I think we all go through a period of time where life seems hardly exciting anymore. Where you have reach a level that indicates that you've been living in this world for way too long, when the truth is you barely even scratch the surface. And there you are, doing the things you do day in and day out, not realising that there is more to life than just doing the things that you do. Make sense? Probably not.

And so, you try to add some spice into your life. You do things differently, you join a club, you do some charity work, you go for trips. But in the end, you're always back at square one, doing the same things you normally do. But at least you're trying right? You're not just idling away and letting your life floats away, just like that. So the effort must have count for something, in a way.

Mundane life. That's what we all go through sometimes at certain periods of our life. But you know what, it doesn't have to be that way. Don't let it be mundane. Fill it with happiness, fill it with excitements. Fill it with friends and laughter. Fill it with love.

Just fill it.