Day 15 - Routine

Making habits is so hard. Some routines give contentment and some give fruitful results but  for some routines we don’t see any results. There may be results but it’s not visible enough. Like the daily writing we are doing now. We wonder how it helps to blurt out the rambling’s coming unfiltered from the mind. The analogy I can think of removing the junk from the drain and the water pipes. To ensure a smooth flow, some repair works need to be done regularly. The cheap menial work which society looks down upon. 

While travelling sometime ago, I saw heaps of waste on the roadside. Is it only in India  or abroad too? Some nooks and corners of the city which is unattended and disregarded. Are we thankful of the workers who clean them up? Are they paid well? 

It’s hard to remind ourselves of such tasks which fill in like water among the big rocks. To remind that this has to be done even though we don’t like it. And like a teen who makes a face when given a cleaning job, I am writing this to show my scrunched up moody face. Trying to act like the parent and “parent” the child in me to do the daily exercise so that I can benefit from it and ensure smooth working flow when really needed. 

Because showing up is the first step for anything. For habits. For work. For promises to keep. For daily life. 

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