ROUTINE BRINGS ORDER

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 in one’s life.  However, some critics argue that a routine 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 emphasise that routine helps one to be organised.

For pupils, it helps balance time schedules, which gives a sense of order in order to stay focused on valuable issues of life like studying to reach your divine destiny. 
Teenagers and even adults who seem to be so neck deep into social networks are on the verge of mental tragedy. Such networks might lead to tragedy once they are part of your routine.

Once you become immune to your routine, it will be like breathing. Every normal being breathes without thinking about it. 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 a change of character.

For instance, a sex worker who is tired of her way of life can become conscious one day and change for a better life.
But if she becomes conscious of her routine life and then dwells on her lifestyle and hard experiences she encounters during the process, tragedy would be her end result.

Another example is that of prisoners at Correctional Services. I’ve just read a book on the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Prisoners
Prisoners in Robben Island were forced to dig at least a metre deep pit daily.
Once 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 life.  Eventually, 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 life is not getting into their veins.

They want freedom like day-scholars, something which is like a mirage since they are in a strict mission school.
Almost all civil servants are talking about the salary review. They have reached the climax of their routine life consciousness such that going to work seems to have no motivation anymore.

I foresee an uproar giving birth to mayhem if their high hopes are not fulfilled. 
Thus my observation, that once an individual becomes conscious of his or her routine life, it would lead to tragedy.

T Nkambule                           

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