I’ve come to the conclusion that I lead a dull life. What might be worse is that I’m not terribly bothered by this. There is very little to distinguish day from day or week from week. The distinctions are trivial items such as different meals or different sections of my legal textbooks. Other than that, it is the same damn thing every day.
Obviously, I experience two types of days, weekday days and weekend days. On weekday days, I wake up between 6:00 or 6:10 depending on whether I hit the snooze once. I take a shower immediately after I wake up. Following my shower, I eat breakfast. The Today Show starts at 7am and I watch a few minutes of Katie and Matt. Next, I will read the material for the day’s classes if I hadn’t gotten to it the day before or I will review what I had previously read just to refresh what it was about. By 9am, I’m out the door and off to Case. I spend the day in boring classes and return back home between 5 and 7pm. My evening is filled by having dinner and reading for the next day. Sometimes I catch a recorded program or two before going to bed between 11pm and midnight.
Weekends are different. I tend to wake up at 9:30. Weekends are usually earmarked for all the errands I do not do during the week. I go grocery shopping and hit up the West Side Market. I do my laundry and clean my apartment. I also do plenty of studying for school. My weekend evenings are typically free to watch a movie or go out with friends.
Clearly, every day is not exactly like the aforementioned. There are slight variations from day to day but, on the whole, this is how I would describe my day. This stuff is so commonplace that I never mention it at all when asked, “What did you do today?” If nothing happened outside the bounds described above, I say, “Nothing”.
By describing a dull life to be similar to what I experience, I believe most people lead dull lives. Aren’t most days determined by routine? People wake up, go to work, come back home and go to bed. There is nothing wrong with this. Routine helps us cope with the world. However, when you look back and see nothing but routine, it seems like life has been wasted. Every day should be filled by a preponderance of non-routine and non-trivial events. In other words, adventure. But who lives this kind of life? Not me.
Like I said, I’m not troubled by my dull life. In fact, I rather enjoy it. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t like to be able to answer, “What have you been up to lately?” by telling a story about how I traveled to Mount Doom to destroy a ring with a motley crew of dwarves, elves, dudes, and hobbits.L
