Sunday, March 15, 2015

March 15: Writing Prompt #74-Comfort Zone

What are you more comfortable with — routine and planning, or laissez-faire spontaneity?
Most of the time, routine and planning work well for me, but I also like a little laissez-faire spontaneity in my life.  Without a measure of routine and planning, life can become too chaotic, but it’s important to just go with the flow now and again and take off on an adventure. 
If I had to narrow it down for you, I’d say my weekdays are filled with routine and planning. Get up the same time each day, go through the same daily ritual to get ready for work and leave within the same 10 minute time frame every day.  Work schedule remains the same every day and a lot of what I do at work is very routine.  After work is also full of structure. It’s home to walk the dog at the same places and basically on the same routes, then get ready for dinner, feed the dog, eat dinner with the family, work on my blog, then off to bed within the same hour every night. 

Weekends, well that’s where my dose of laissez-faire spontaneity comes in.  We may make last minute dinner plans with out of town friends who text they are coming into town for the night OR lazy Saturday mornings turn into ½ hikes with the dog in the rainforest because we found a good spot on the internet to take dogs.  There’s a great local website for the area, so sometimes I’ll just check out what the events are for the weekend on Thurston Talk and ask if anyone wants to go see the Salmon Run or check out a free family movie on the golf course. I kind of figure that’s what weekends are for anyway. That way, if you just feel like lying around and watching movies, you won’t feel bad since it wasn’t planned to begin with. J  What about you?  Where’s your comfort zone lie?

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