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“The Triviality of Everydayness”

“Man must believe in realities outside his own smallness, outside the ‘triviality of everydayness’, if he is to do anything worthwhile.”

Colin Wilson (The Occult, 1971)

How often do you feel that life has become dull and monotonous and find yourself stuck in a similar situation everyday? Surroundings don’t change, people around you don’t change: the only thing which changes is the Date! Things which once looked challenging become your daily cup of tea…Everything and everyone looks so familiar that you no longer feel their presence around you….you start cursing anything and everything…..and the list goes on…..

This is precisely the “Triviality of Everydayness”. We tend to loose interest in people, things and happenings around us and become indifferent. We tend to become reactive rather than proactive. I’ve been in and out of such situations numerous times involuntarily.

Let’s back up and think for a minute. Of all the people, places and things which have become monotonous and uninteresting what all has really changed since they were once so exciting? When I look back and see, the only significant change which I can realize is my own perception towards everything.

So if it’s all within me which has brought about the triviality of everydayness the stimulus to overcome this has to come from within me and not from anyone else or my surrounding. Of course the other option is to move away and look for a new set of people and ambiance. But do we have this option always? Moreover it could be a short term solution to a problem which we’ll probably face throughout our lives.

So the solution lies within ourselves and we constantly need to break through our perceptions and look for innovative ways to overcome the “Triviality of Everydayness”.

Notes to Myself : Now that I’ve written this article, I better start following it!

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Ankit - December 8, 2007

Something similar I read yesterday from my river ‘o news: numb.

Now go play your scrabble move!

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Deepesh - December 8, 2007

I have tried changing quite a few things in last couple of years, and realised it doesn’t help. However, the lesson learnt is NOT that keeping things is going to help. Rattling your life sometimes is a good thing, either you change yourself or your surroundings. Bottomline is change. Well, will try to write a post on this if I can get my thoughts together. It just gets too confusing every time I try something on these lines [even this comment for that matter :-)].

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Amit Srivastava - December 8, 2007

@Ankit: Yes mostly this happens with our workplace as we spend most of our productive time there.

Already played my scrabble move. Now let’s bet on PYMWMMI who’ll win this 🙂

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Amit Srivastava - December 8, 2007

@Deepesh: Yes you are right, bottom line is change whether it is within us or our surrounding. And it may not work always as you’ve said.

Also, the point is that we have to realize that we need to do something to bring about that change as opposed to wait for some change to happen by itself. I’ll look forward to your post.

BTW isn’t blogging a nice change to the way we communicate. I am enjoying it. I am sure u too 🙂

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Abhishek - December 8, 2007

Hey, you definitely need a break man. Since the last six months I have noticed that your life has become monotonous.

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Amit Srivastava - December 9, 2007

@Abhishek hmmmm yeah need some change…at least blogging is one of them 🙂

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Abhinav - December 13, 2007

A very correct observation … I also hate to see people who just don’t give a thought about reinventing themselves, they carry out in the same pattern as they were without even realizing it … anyways, my whining is not going to change them 😉 … I would better be careful about myself not getting into such a rut.

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