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25 June 2010

#176 Get a new routine

The alarm on my cell phone goes off. That means that it's morning. I snooze three times and then I get up. I go into the kitchen. I turn on one of the burners on the gas stove. A large pot of water. I go into the bathroom. I wash my face. Deodorant, then I comb my hair a bit. Go into the closet. Put on underwear and socks. A pair of trousers. A wife beater. I go into the kitchen. The water is boiling so I pour a cup of coffee. Make a sandwich. Sit down at the kitchen table. Turn on the radio that is preset to P3. News. Morgonpasset. I pour in a bit of soy milk into the coffee. Take a bite of the sandwich. And another. Eat it up. Brush my teeth. Take my bag. Tie up my shoes. Lock the door and go down to the bus. Get on the bus. It rolls down the hill. 

The alarm on my cell phone goes off. This means that it's morning. I don't snooze. I get up. I sit on the floor in the living room and put on a meditation CD. I sit and close my eyes for 30 minutes. When the disc is finished, I get up and stretch my arms towards the ceiling. I go into the bathroom. Wash my face. Put on deodorant. Go into the closet. Put on underwear and socks. A beanie. A pair of trousers. A shirt. I put on a tie and tie it. I go into the kitchen Take a couple capsules of Omega 3 and a large glass of water. Swallow the capsules. Drink the water. Brush my teeth. Put on some perfume. Leave the bag behind. I take the mobile phone and notebook with me. The calendar and wallet. Keys. Lock the door and go down to the bike. I get on the bike. Roll down the hill.

Required time: 
It doesn't take more time than usual. It may even take less time.
Cost: 
Zero.
Cons: 
Your body can become confused if it doesn't get a cup of coffee every morning if it is used to it. But confusion is not necessarily bad. It's good to shock your body. You wake up everyday to the coma.
Pros: 
You get there in a different way. You face life on your toes. Breaking routines doesn't mean you have to go backwards to work while barking like a dog. It is about making active choices and not being in a rut of a routine, slowly moving forward.
Taggar: sliding doors, new routine
14 April 2010

#104 Take the wrong bus on purpose

Sometimes I think about the guy who wakes up and is going to work, but thinks to hell with it and start to watch a fly on the wall instead. He looks at the fly for two minutes and then he gets up and starts doing all the things he does every morning. Brushing his teeth, boiling eggs, toasting bread, putting on his clothes to go to work. The problem is that this day he misses the bus. And when he misses the bus and takes the next bus that comes two minutes later, he will also work two minutes later and miss what is happening at that time that he usually tends to enter. He is then two minutes out of sync the rest of the day. No one greets him, no one jokes with him and he is seriously concerned. Until he begins to discover all the new stuff that is only two minutes away. The misstep becomes an out-of-sync step into another world and he finds other people who also got out of sync from their everyday lives and starts talking with them. A retarded guy copying papers, a 90-year-old Indian woman, three girls who will start a club for poor children and a talking dog. They are fixed in two minutes unsync as well. I think just like you reading this, that this fable is not as fables tend to be. But I think that is precisely the point. This fable is two minutes out of sync because I missed the bus today because I stayed two minutes extra in bed. Imagine if you were to take the wrong bus on purpose. Break the barrier. Discover something new. The danger is that you will never be yourself again.

Bonus: http://www.out-of-sync-child.com/

Bonus 2: N'sync - Bye bye bye - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNxqYoCVF7Y

Required time: 
Two minutes.
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
People who usually see you will have a harder time seeing you and may need to adapt to the new system.
Pros: 
You discover new camps, new coaches, new people, new things you didn't see when you were stuck in the 07:00-track.
Taggar: sliding doors, bus