How do you break up the monotony of day to day life?
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BobSaccamano-is-back
ANSWERS: 11
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By doing random things. Like trying to light baguette on fire, or trying to learn to juggle.
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I do random acts of kindness. I strongly advise you read Join Me by Danny Wallace to understand more (its brilliant, you won't regret it). They break things up a bit. Then I do a lot of things on impulse. I don't think about them, just do them, like walk half way round Portsmouth to get home. I don't let being alone stop me from doing things either- if I have no one to go with to go into town or whatever, I'll go anyway, and more than likely make a totally new and random friend. I'd say think less, do more once in a while
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music, or by going to my friends house, sitting there bored to tears for a few hours until we decide to A) walk around town and see whos home (usually walking 5+miles until someone takes us in and feeds us) or B) burn/explode things
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Do something crazy every now and then, or change your daily routine.
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Call or email a friend I haven't talked with in a while... read a new book... paint,,, make a new and different recipe... write more on a story I am working on... watch a movie... take a long walk and listen to music on my iPod... feed my neighbor's horse... go jump on the trampoline... um, all I can think of for now, but I also like the suggestions of doing random, impulsive things.
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hummmmmm......By playing Video games, writing, and not answering the phone!
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I don't. Monotony is only a problem if you're not giving yourself fully to each moment as it arises. In the Japanese tea ceremony, there is an exact and precise procedure for doing everything... how the water is boiled, how the tea is stirred, how the napkins are folded. There's an entire elaborate procedure just for scooting across the floor from your seat to pick up your tea. Everything is done with minute attention to detail: wholeheartedly, without reservation. Any thoughts about "I'd rather be playing World of Warcraft" are set aside. The ceremony is best held at sunset, when the golden light fills the room and creates the perfect in-between atmosphere for sipping tea. Done right, every tea is the first tea. There's no monotony, because there's no competition for the participant's attention -- no thoughts about where we'd rather be, or wouldn't it be better if the tea were a little greener, or... you get the idea. To be fully engaged in the present banishes monotony. Even if you're doing exactly the same thing over and over again.
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There is no monotony is my day to day life! How can there be? Everyday at my house is like a terrible teen sitcom. If I'm not being "Roseanne", then my kids are doing the bouncing off the wall in some fashion other than doing what they should be. I don't think I belong in a Jerry Springer episode, I'm a Springer Season!!!!
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i clean up, computer, watch some t.v., maybe some music later, computer, play with my daughter after school, computer. take a long bubble bath. then i go to bed.
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I have been doing a lot of research work and taking care of my husband this last year. He has not been bedridden or anything like that just a lot weaker than is his norm, we have also moved 3 times trying to prepare for the future ( it will not come now) but I have not had much monotony to break up. This last month AB has helped me to get through the tough time THANKS GUYS
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I have to say that when I am not concentrating on something at home or work related, when I found Answerbag, I got something else to do that did not "fill the monotony" of life, but it gives me something else I can concentrate on so that there is no room for monotony as long as I am concentrating on a thoughtful reply and of course spell checking my answer. I appreciate Ab for that very much, as it has for me been a very helpful place in the time I have been here, to learn how to help others and also help myself.
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