PEOPLE RELY ON STRICT ROUTINE

Sir,

In this 21st century, a vast majority of people rely on a strict routine to keep their lives on track. Statistics prove that a fixed routine is helpful because it brings order into one’s life.  However, some critics argue that a routine life may lead into tragedy.

In general, a routine is a set of daily activities, practices or chores that you do every day whether you like them or not. Some educated elites emphasize that a routine life helps one to be organised.
For pupils it helps them balance time schedules which give a sense of order in order to stay focused on highly valuable issues of life like studying to reach your divine destiny.

Tragedy

Teenagers, and even adults, who are deep into social networks, such as WhatsApp and Facebook, are on the verge of mental tragedy. Such networks might lead to tragedy once they are part of your routine life.
Some text messages sent to and fro may be life threatening and this disturbs certain individuals.

Once you become immune to your routine life, it will be like breathing. Every normal being breaths without thinking. It is spontaneous and done unconsciously. However, once you become conscious of your routine life, it is bound to lead to tragedy. Some may argue that once you’re conscious of your routine it may lead to change of character.
I’ve just read a book on the apartheid regime in South Africa. Prisoners in Robin Island were forced to dig at least a metre-deep pit daily.

Refill

Once they were done, their boss would charge someone else who would return the dug soil to refill the pit, and then the one who dug would dig it again and again.
These prisoners ended up fighting one another because of becoming conscious of their routine. Some would get killed during the fight, and the fittest would survive.
The prison warders did not want to kill the prisoners but they wanted them to fight and kill each other. Such was a life of mindless routine.

I’ve heard some pupils who are hostel dwellers complaining that they are tired of their routine life and are thinking of quitting school. Such individuals need guidance and counselling as soon as possible.
This will prevent tragedy since for some, it is a fact that a hostel routine is not getting into their veins.

Strict

They want freedom like day-scholars, something which is like a mirage since they are in a strict mission school.
Lastly, almost all civil servants are talking about their salary adjustment. They have reached the climax of their routine life consciousness such that going to work seems to have no motivation anymore.
Thus, my observation is that once an individual becomes conscious of his or her routine life, it will lead to tragedy.

T Nkambule

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