There are so many decisions that are made each day unconsciously.
We wake up, eat breakfast, get ready and go to work. Then we come home, eat dinner, followed by however we spend our limited personal time, then go to bed. This cycle repeats over 200 times a year!
It is easy to just go through the motions. It is a conscious decision to maintain this status quo.
Even the smallest things of this routine, there's choice. These actions are more habits, from brushing your teeth, to what to have for breakfast (most people have the same or similar things everyday I find).
Then there are the bigger things that are more unconscious, they are woven into the fabric of our being. If you really wanted to, you could choose to not go into work, do something different with the personal time, choose to not be with whomever your significant other is at the time.
There's a "rut" that most people at one time or another feel they're stuck in. And we all speak as if nothing can be done about it, but change nonetheless is available to anybody at anytime. Of course there are repercussions to change. Cavities (brushing teeth), unemployment (work), hunger (breakfast) and so on and so forth.
While the above may sound rather cynical and downtrodden, there's a silver lining to this post. We're never as stuck as we think we are. Everyday is an opportunity for change. Whether for better or worse, we never know until it all plays out. But isn't progress, regardless the outcome, better than being stagnant? Why wait for tomorrow, because tomorrow may never come.
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