Do you at times feel like your life is such a routine?

I have a three year old and one year old twins. I have created menus and tried to stick to them the best I can. The weekends is the time when I get all of my prep work done too and it is tedious. You are exactly right that if you don't follow the planning it all goes crazy!

before i finish study, i dont see my life as routine, even it was a routine. after graduate, seeing people around us. yes, our life as a routine, different routine. when think about it, i just hate it. wake up, manage their child, home, work, lunch, dinner, sleep. going round and round for the hold year. oh, no , i just dont want to be in that situation. i really want something freedom, spontaneous

I do feel like this. Its just a big circle of life. Its not just the planning that I see in this. We are completely repetitious of everything. Wake up, eat, get ready for work, drive our route to work and then work. Drive our route back home, have dinner watch tv, surf the net. Go to bed. Get back up and do it all again, just to pay the same bills, shop for the same basic stuff.....And thats just the basic outline.

I think my life is very regular. Every morning I prepare for the breakfast and I send our son to school after that. And then I will walk to the office. And I have to work until 5:30pm and then I go home on foot. Then I will check our son's homework for a while and then it is time for us to have dinner together. After washing the dishes, hopefully my son will finish the homework soon so that I can check it. And then my son has to play the piano for a while as the practice. He will read the books after that. Finally I will teach him some English before he goes to bed. It is almost the same everyday

yes not once but each week when the life starts fresh with all same work,i feel the routine hitting me again and makes me go weirdo

Planning is wonderful. It ensures that life moves smoothly. But you know what you should do something spontaneous once a week. It breaks the monotony of a boring life. Try it. Just get up and go for that trip to the museum or something.

Just a suggestion why not have a week where you don't plan anything, do everything on the day, spontaneous meals and not think about the rest of the week, things might seem crazy but at least you've tried it out and it's a break from the norm, the usual routine? I find I run my life on a day to day basis, I don't plan further than today, it's how I cope with life. Although I know in my head what I will do each day. Plus if you do plan ahead, things have a weird way of messing up your plans. Sounds like you got yourself in a right rut and also need some quality time to do something you really enjoy doing as well.

I don't plan things out like that. I will make some plans if there is a particular event I want to attend or something I need to do (such as a doctor's appointment); however, I just can't plan things out like that. I think that I would go mad if I did meal planning; how utterly boring that would be to me, because I like to cook what strikes my fancy.

We live in routines but I don't plan all that much.I know it is good to plan but I just don't do it regularly. Sometimes I write down the things I need to accomplish, but much of the time I just feel lazy to do this. My life is a routine too but I try to spice it up by going to the gym from time to time.

These days life has become more of a task management and routine planning then anyhting else. We do not get time to spend with family / friends or just relax , busy planning something or the other. But no problem we can definitely meet each other at mylot. and discuss / post / solve problems for happiness at whymeangry.com Thanks pratikm23, whymeangry.com

That's generally what life is - a routine. There might some slight changes but we all adapt to them and we go on as before. Sometimes, it might come as a shock but we all are resilient and for the sake our lives and others, we try to make sure that everything is still the same. I guess, as people, we really find some comfort in the status quo. Any change is almost always a risk- something that we don't know if it is for the better or for worst.

That is what I feel too, my life is a routine. My route every day except during weekends is from home to office to home.

Hi dominique! With my present job, I could say that I don't feel that my life is a routine. In fact I have a fear that I would not be able to master anything. We have a practice that we should be reassigned in another place after some time to avoid familiarity. They believe that if you are already familiar with the place and the people in it, chances are it would be easier to create a connivance over something which may result to a not so good effect on the community. I meet new people everyday and it is also one good thing about my job. On you part, I think you could change the system from time to time to make if more exciting. Planning is something we should do in order to make things flow smoothly.

life really is a routine.. so its important for us to have a hobby where we release all the stress that coming thru in our lives.. or just by having a pet will do also.. and no matter how busy we are we should not forget to be thankful that we are still alive..

After you formed a habit, you will beu hardly to change, I think you have been used to the way of palning everything well in your life.I don't make daily plans,even years plans,especially there's speical thing,but I really hope that I can make a plan anbd obey to it.I admire you.:)

yes i do feel that way sometimes.since i am working as a live-in caregiver my life has been going as a routine for eight years now.i wake up at 6:30 in the morning and start my work right away.preparing breakfast,feeding and cleaning my patient,clean the house,cooking and all the household chores not to mention i have to accompany my patient and take some time to talk to him whenever he is bored and in pain.i feel like i am living in a routine,unlimited hours of work,underpaid and not having a single days off.im exshausted sometimes but what can i do,this is my job.the only way i can cope is that i treat this house as my own house and my patient as my own father and sometimes i will make fun with him.this way i wont be that disappointed.i always say,we have to love what we are doing and do not just think its an obligation.the same with you dominique25,i think u are being stressed out,make some fun with your daughter,do things with her and not just plan for her.make fun with each other.and sometimes give time for yourself also.unlike me,u dont have a boss looking or checking with what you are doing or what have you done for the day.try some new things and try to make fun activities.take care.