Or as Woody Allen supposedly put it “It is déjà vu all over again”. In fact it wasn’t Allen, it was the baseball player Yogi Berra. Other expressions include “same old same old …” And there was the Movie Groundhog Day. Of course Shakespeare put it best of all: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, ….
The intense routineaity of routine should cause us perhaps not to take life so seriously. Our lives are constrained. The beginnings and endings, especially, of each day bear striking resemblance to each other. Sometimes you can’t help but see yourself as the director of a movie. It is that moment of dissociation from the ongoing flow of life that help a person see that the whole thing is really a bit of a game.
The secret they say is to enjoy the game, and not to take it too seriously. After all, where will you be 100 years from today?
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