No Matter How You Rearrange Routine, You Can Never Spell Adventure!

Get up, go to work, work, go home, eat dinner, sit, sleep, and repeat, to me that leads so much to be desired. If you are comfortable with the same old grind day in and day out, that's fine, this is about me. Routines are comfortable yet confining and always make me feel like I am missing out on something.

Think of it as math, if you put the same exact variables in every equation, you will always get the same answer. Before long you will know the equation and answer by heart and be able to do it like nothing. Now change a variable in that equation, now you feel lost and don't know how to solve it. The answer you've known by heart is suddenly gone, and you find yourself scared of what a new answer could be. How do I equate this, how is this quantifiable, how to a learn a new answer?

Always knowing the outcome to the daily grind is stagnation at it's finest. Sure it's the always knowing what is going to happen that is a form of peace, but where's the growth, where's the adventure, and how do you elevate to unknown heights? When we find ourselves doing the same thing day in and day out, sure the smallest change could feel like an adventure. If stopping at a different gas station for coffee in the morning feels like an adventure, well ufda is all I can say.

In work life routines are alright, boring, but alright. In life, you can't aim for the stars if you are looking straight ahead. Growth is that constantly evolving, changing, and elevating experience that makes us all better everyday.

It's all a matter of elevate and embrace or maintain and tolerate, whatever works for you is fine. I'm not saying sell it all and move to an different country where it's illegal to wear pants on Wednesdays. I'm saying, slip into the car, go driving to the farthest star! Well Mike Doughty said that but I can borrow it. It doesn't matter which star you shoot for, but make sure you love the ride!

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over all while expecting different results. Sure things can be scary when you step away from routine, heck like is scary enough on it's own, but gosh darn it have an adventure that is more than a different kind of coffee.

Frank Zappa - "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."

I think about that everyday, probably one of the reasons I'm not "normal." I like to live out my life like everyday could be my last. Sure I get stuck in routine but every chance I have to break that up, I go for it. Make life the adventure YOU want, because YOU are in charge of YOUR adventure. Don't do it for anyone other than YOU.

In the end everyone has to pick out which kind of life they want to leave. Me, I'm an adventurer, a dreamer, I'm Matt, but I do it in my best interests to keep me on my toes. Always live life with your best interests in the forefront because remember, what is best for the spider is bad for the fly.