Finally Friday is here again. Some call it ‘furahi day’ meaning a day to rejoice, but for me I don’t see any difference from the other days because I know I’m going to spend it just like the other days. Since I became sick last week I had to be indoors all through and from Monday till today am still here. Doctors say that when you are sick then you should spend most of the time in bed and rest a lot, but for me I have discovered a new thing from all these, you become sicker, bored and tired, you don’t recover at all.
Having to do the same thing throughout the week has really made my health to deteriorate and even worsen and am sure this is not because the drugs have not been effective but probably I have been spending most of the time sleeping, anyway let’s turn the coin on the other side ad look at the positive things that I have learn t, mmmmmh! , ROUTINE is the word. I have learn t how routine can make Opiyo the dull boy.
Routine is the tendency of doing things is a common fashion; it’s like waking up in the morning, taking a shower, breakfast, going to job and doing the same thing throughout the day. It’s an easy life but when observed closely very monotonous and boring. Henry van duke once said that as long as a habit and a routine dictate the patterns of living, new dimensions of the soul will never emerge.
Doing things in a routine is really dangerous. It blocks our brains from new ideologies and interests. Life is great out there it’s full of new things which we always need to try out. Talk of the Christian walk; this is one walk that requires diversity, if we live a Christian life where we read the bible because it’s part of the routine, pray because we have to do it at 9pm before going to bed or go to church because it’s a community routine to worship every Sunday, then we are heading to the wrong destination.
I have been in catholic denomination and have really experienced a routine in the way of worship. Standing at some point of prayers, kneeling in some, reciting the same prayers and singing the same songs after each prayers etc. I have nothing against these forms of doing things but I guess it reaches a point where we become sick of it and its value is lost.
Sometimes looking at things in a different angle makes us discover their other shapes and dimensions, and sometimes doing things in different ways help us to create new ideas and ways to develop our selves. We have made it a habit to judge people in the way they talk, laugh at stupid jokes and have desired to fit in ‘clicks’ just to be accepted, but all in all we don’t accept ourselves because we always have to follow the same trend in order to feel complete, but the question is, are we really complete?
Let me drift a bit and look at the Kenyan political history, 1st president Mr. Kenyatta always said “harambee” and people would shout “nyayo”. President Moi on the other hand forced us to follow the nyayo slogan and finally we found ourselves lagging behind since we were still using the Kenyatta ways of doing thing, but where has that taken us, are we industrialized yet? Will we ever be industrialized anyway? The routine has caught up with our politics, endorsing the same people over years, stealing votes for them to be in the same positions, but still we are longing for changes?
What’s wrong with us people, haven’t we learn t anything over the years? Routine will never redeem a man. Praying in the same manner won’t make you a growing Christian, sometimes you have to do it longer, stronger and more sincerely. Routine takes away our honesty, it drains out our passion and more so makes us lesser and lesser as the days goes by. William Graham once said, “Men of routine or men who do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare to find.” This is all true, but he didn’t say that they are impossible to find.
I believe it’s time we do away with the routine thing and stop being lazy to think of new ideas of doing things in our Christian walk, in improving our economy and electing our political leaders, because one reality about routine is that it kills all our imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
“Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom” said James Galway. Today I won’t spend my day in bed for throughout this week I have learn t a lot about routine and since I don’t want to be the lazy boy, who can’t generate ideas, am off these blankets.
Wake up and journey on.
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