My life has inevitably come to a somewhat grinding halt. The days now unfold like clockwork, much to my annoyance. So many things in my life have become so mundane, that I often find myself automatically finishing tasks before ever realizing when I had started them. I head to Starbucks in the morning and the woman at the counter automatically smiles and charges me and hands over a Double Chocolate Muffin, without even opening my mouth. I head downstairs for lunch to the food court, and the clerk glances up at me and screams to the kitchen "One chicken wrap sandwich only no lettuce no peppers less onion extra cheese toasted take away!" My Outlook calendar is a stark reminder of my annoying habit to meticulously allocate specific time slots in the day for certain tasks - even for taking a lunch break. Sad, aren't I? I think it's high time that I snapped out of my mundane routines and enjoyed life a bit more - though of course, that's easier said than done.

Still, I do appreciate the mundane - at least I know that something like this won't happen to me on a fairly 'ordinary' day:


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