The Comfort of Routine

When listening to young mothers and fathers it is apparent that they find the day to day routine sometimes difficult and definitely mundane. I know that when I was raising my young children these same feelings were expressed at times. It can be hard to do the same thing day after day, and raising children is a joy, but one that comes with a lot of hard work and stress. Adding a busy work schedule to it all can sometimes push you over the top as they say.

What I can tell you is that as you age your perspective on life changes. Your children grow up and before you know it they are in college, and then out on their own. Your time becomes "your own" and you start to fill it with all the things you never had time to do, and things you never thought you would do. There are not enough hours in the day but you embrace all of these things with joy and as a new adventure. All the time you spent in the past being "bored" with your routine or stressed seems so far away.

Somewhere, as we go down the road of our lives we begin to find a great deal of comfort in routine. The day to day is like having warm arms wrapped around you. Along the way you sprinkle in your new adventures to shake things up. We all need to add excitement to our lives so we continue to learn, grow, and know we are alive. And when we are done with our adventures we can return for a time to the warm arms and comfort of our routine.