“The less of routine, the more of life.”--Philosopher Amos Bronson
This is a wickedly false view of humanity which reduces the meaning of life to a variety fetish. Although routine can of course have its own dangers, the notion that somehow the quality of life is related to a lack of repetition is simply false. Try telling a stay-at-home mother that her life is less life because she is changing diapers, feeding, wiping noses, washing dishes, and preparing meals over and over and over and over and over again. It is her loving devotion to something other than personal self-stimulation that makes her sacrifice of variety such a bountiful demonstration of love. We have an expression that “variety is the spice of life,” which is much more apt, since the implied contrast here is that no one eats three meals a day of spice. Variety may enhance the meat and vegetables and starch of solid routines, but don’t worship it as the purpose of life.
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