Do you ever get that feeling that your life is just going round in circles? Does that bother you? Does that depress you? Do you see that as a problem?
In order to understand the context of our problem, we must first look at how it relates to the context of our lives. Life does go round in circles. For example, we have to go to work every day, we have to cook every day, we have to wash every day. There are things that are part of your day and part of your life, part of everybody's life, which are necessities. We can't really avoid the fact that we have to do them. And if that is the case, why should we allow them to bother us so much? Work may be the biggest problem in our lives, but it is a problem that WE can change. As for the rest of it, we just have to get on with it without interpreting it as a burden.
Then there are things in life which are our choice, such as going to the gym every day. We personally choose things to add to our lives which enhance it. And if it ever feels as though they are not enhancing it, we have to question why we are doing it, and more importantly, how we are doing it. This is what brings us to the point where we see our lives as going round in circles. If a task which we perform becomes a burden, then we have to re examine our choices, either by taking a break, or by varying our routines. We can absolutely continue with things without them becoming tiresome. It is when we subconsciously tire of our desires that life feels monotonous. This is when we develop 'Groundhog Day' syndrome. We do not actually realise that we are repeating things too much, because it is in our subconscious. It goes unnoticed in our normal pattern of attention to every day life. This is why we should establish the habit of allowing our conscious to examine our subconscious. We need to actively think about the things that we do and keep them fresh.
Look at your daily tasks in life and create yourself an image association of them. The things that we cannot do without are fixed. Imagine them as a keyboard, a computer screen, a television, a car. They are fixed structures which do not alter. Those objects are our cooking, cleaning, etc. We must visualise them as nothing more than the 'hard drive' of our life. The variables that WE add are what we do with that keyboard, what we create on that computer screen, what we watch on that television, where we drive our car. The CREATIVITY element of our lives is under OUR control, and it is from those things which we derive our satisfaction. Life is only monotonous when we do not examine what we do with it, when we do not add our own creativity, our own uniqueness. It is in our hands.
Your feelings are largely governed by your actions, the actions around you, and your interpretations of those actions. Our lives actually require a certain element of structure, a certain amount of repetitiveness, yet when you allow that repetitiveness to have negative associations, you drag yourself, along with your mood, down.
The circle is the most perfect, natural and complete shape in nature. Man invented the wheel from this concept, a basic design, but nothing has come since to supersede it's functionality. The wheel transports us from place to place, continually turning, round and round and round. Does it get fed up with the repetitiveness? No, because it is doing it's job, it's necessary function, without need for despair. When we undertake tasks that are repetitive, we must detach ourselves from negative emotion.
Our lives, whether we like it or not, are a constant revolution of going round in circles. It is our job to identify and control those cycles in order that they become purposeful. We should see repetitiveness as a continually renewed opportunity. When you visit a place from your childhood, and reminisce with fondness, you are completing a circle. Life is full of these moments and they are actually under our control, and thus, our emotions that relate to them are also under our control. The creativity is all under our control. So, next time you have feelings that your life is just going round in circles, stop, get off, and examine why, examine the cause and effect of your actions, and DO something about it.
Bruce Lee said it best - "Running water never goes stale."
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