A breath of fresh air

It was about the time to get out of the house today. These past few days that I've just sat at home studying and studying started to make me go crazy (literally... I was making weird sounds and laughing at every idiot thing) so today I decided to go to the city. Since my family lives outside it, surrounded by the beauty of Finnish nature (read: in the middle of nowhere), it requires a decision beforehand if you wanna go shopping, for instance. 

It isn't so long ago that I travelled there back and forth every single damned schoolday, but a fortnight makes you feel alienated. I was almost bewildered by the streetlights, traffic lights and light signs. Okay that is a little exaggeration, I am not a hillbilly wearing wellies all year long. But my point here is that since I made a tiny change into my routine I felt so much better. Even studying wasn't so hard after doing something else for a change.

Which lead to yet another life philosophy. In my opinion, what makes life so great is the unexpected or the surprising. Though I appreciate daily routines and the secure feeling of having everything under control, you will never feel completely satisfied with your life unless you make an exception to the normal every once in a while. It can be anything; a spontaneous rock-climbing trip, trying a new receipe after a few months of pasta, a change of scenery for the weekend or just a new hairstyle. Anything you can think of, except boyfriends/girlfriends, that makes you just stupid. Or unable to commit. Every time something changes there is the feeling of freshness and excitement, followed by the short, fascinating period of habituating when the new is so cool and cheery. 

If you realise that you are trapped in the constant, never-ending circle of similarity, force it to stop. It is incredibly simple, you don't have to move across the country to succeed with it. I started by changing the sweatpants I had worn for a few days into leggins and a big shirt and replacing my studying spot two chairs left from the previous spot. Even that made a huge difference! If you always buy a black shirt, try picking the blue one next time. If you always spend your holiday at the family cottage, surprise everyone (yourself included) by buying a one-way ticket to somewhere a few hundreds of kilometers away and go sightseeing.  

If you won't do it now, then when? Don't fossilize inside your own life.