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I have never been good at sticking to any sort of routine however much I wished to. My admiration for those who followed timetables being pretty high, I have put a whole lot of effort to follow their example. But failure was the only result. Soon I had to reluctantly I admit to myself that mine was not to be such an orderly life that ran on oiled wheels on the same lines each day. I was a bohemian at heart, and other than the absolutely necessary times in life like when I had to see that the L & M and the children got their meals on time so they could go their respective ways to office and school/college, I simply followed my heart in everything.
My days even in the present are never predictable. One day I’d have finished all my work by 8 a.m. and would be walking around with my camera trying to spot birds or butterflies. Another day I might laze the whole day reading or surfing the net and cook only at 4 p.m. Though I have on innumerable occasions made plans to sleep at the same time everyday, each night I go to bed at different times. See what I mean? I don’t like to have any set schedule hanging over my head. It cramps my style and feels restrictive. Considering this, it is a miracle that I have my meals on time, or maybe it’s because I don’t have a choice but to eat at regular times now.
Anyways, such being things, when it was announced on IndiBlogeshwaris to go after that one ‘elusive’ thing and try to catch hold of it during the month of May, I thought, why not? Let me give it a try (one last try) to stick to a routine for just one month. Well, I take this opportunity to announce to ye all Blogeshwaries, that I have once again failed. I can’t stick to a routine for peanuts or gold, ummm… maybe for love I could stretch things a bit, but for nothing else I am afraid. Am I unhappy that I failed? Hell, no! So after one whole month, here I am, happy and cheerful as ever, my same old bohemian self. Please don’t disown me gals for having failed you.
Now, a word about the IndiBlogeshwaris. It is a group on Facebook of women of toughstance, brainchild of Vinita, ably assited by Corinne and Janaki. I am not a ‘group’ person. So when somebody roped me into this highly interactive group, I chose to watch the fun mostly from the sidelines, only occasionally joining in. But then that’s just the introvert me that has no override button for the introversion. I enjoy the fun everyone is having whether I join in or not. Apart from the whole lot of fun, there is help and support for everyone. I have to admit I spend way too much time reading all that goes on in IndiBlogeshwaris. Read more about the group here (link)
Today this interesting group is turning one. Here’s to all the Blogeshwaries on their first birthday. May we celebrate many more!
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Great post Shail! I just admire your ability to laugh at yourself. Another thing I love about your writing is that it’s sharp, crisp and bang to the point. No Dilly Dallying. Keep up the good work.
P.S. Having my cuppa while writing this comment.
Laughter.. well let’s say I like laughter and smiles and simply don’t understand people who insist on keeping long faces. Thank you so much for the appreciation, Swati 🙂 I hope you enjoyed your cuppa 🙂
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Shail I have shared your post on FB with due credit given to you. I so liked the post that I had to share it. Please do visit my blog and leave your footprints there. Also I wanted to know how did you add the above line. I wanted to add — Don’t go before leaving your footprints here or something on those lines
I hope you used the FB share button below the blog to sher the post. And I also think Reblogging is a cool feature that WordPress has that you should try when sharing posts. May be we can have a Gtalk chat and I can answer your queries better? 🙂
Now that you have mentioned of reblogging I doing that as well. By the way read your FB message and didn’t understand what you are asking?
It’s very tough for me to follow a routine too! I now have to since I work, but it was a tough change!
It’s been wonderful to be in this group with people like you, Shail!
I know, Roshni. That’s one reason I hate work with regular timings. 😉 And remember how I had commented about adopting your timetable for tidying up the house? It never worked 😦 😉
In my case every night I sleep later than the previous night. A time comes when I go to sleep in the morning and wake up a couple of hours later because of kitchen calling.
Shail, just be yourself!
I’d like to do that. In fact I used to. But lack of sleep routine is playing havoc with me these days 😦 So Cinderella usually is in bed well before midnight, errr… umm… most days that is 😉
I decided a while back to put my failure to follow a routine down to the fact that I’m ‘creative’ – it allows me to fool myself quite nicely! 😉
I am discovering new similarities between us, Corinne! 😀
Incorrigible you, Corinne… 😀
Corinne that’s was a good reply but I guess it is true for all the creative people barring few rules I don’t think anyone of us can actually stick to routines. I didn’t mention it earlier but i get restless if I have to do the same thing again and again. and yes, other than the fact that I get up early to catch up on some me time and get some work done before my hyperactive preschooler wakes up I don’t generally follow a routine. Though I try to insist that he follows a routine every morning of brushing and bathing and then brushing in the night.
Routine … I have a love-hate relationship with it. I have to have a routine and every once in a while, it irritates me and I scramble up my life so that I dont feel like a wind-up toy
Trying to follow a routine is bad for my self-esteem. It sends a report to me that says, “You cannot!” 😐
Shame on you! LOL
*hangs head in shame* 😀 😀
All of us ladies who are walking the tough path and taking a tough stance, will find it difficult to stick to routine.. we love surprises. We love being in the midst of random things where the result is so elusive that it might come in the next few minutes or the next few hours. The unknown is what attracts us. 🙂
There you go, you are not alone.
We thrive in this ‘abnormalcy’ if at all is it that.
I like that there are more around like me 😀
Anything that keeps you clicking those awesome pictures is perfectly fine with me Shail. After all, who could ever pin a cloud?
Hugs…
Well, pictures you are going to be inundated with, Dagny! So be prepared 😉
And yea, no pinning the cloud! 😀
We are too alike Shail in this respect. The only routine I follow is I sleep on time, mainly because I am forced to. Kids leave home at 6:30 am. So it is a necessity now for me. Please continue clicking butterflies and birds. It makes me jealous, but it makes me want to learn a lot too. 🙂
Luckily, I am past that phase of my life 😉 Pictures will be clicked aplenty to keep you environment friendly.. I mean ‘green’! 😉
Having a routine nullifies spice in life 🙂 good that u havent changed and such a crisp and clear post !
enjoyed it.
Well I can never follow routine too 😛 specially when I am travelling !
🙂 Routine? That’s an indecent thing… 😀 Me three 🙂 Most times, on a holiday, I don’t know what’s happening 😛
This is what I love about you, Shail..you’re bindaas, absolutely bindaas! You have no qualms about declaring that you failed to stick to the routine, you’re just so happy and cheerful as ever! 😆 Thats the spirit!
Stay the way you are! 🙂
Im a late sleeper , late riser and now with the kids gone, i have no need to wake up for their school hours 🙂 yay but apart from that i have a routine and everyone runs by it for me, not so much time bound but job bound 🙂 even my morning chai has a nice book reading chai time scheduled for 45 min. it doesn’t matter when it starts by 45min it shall last .
but if are a free spirit you should be a free spirit, why bother to adapt to something not suited to you … I think afer living on this planet for these many decades i claim to qualify for the queen rold, i do as i please and speak as i please… live on my own terms.
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I read this and replied to it in my head or from the other ID, can’t remember……but you tried Shail and that is fab. Failing is our birthright. Ab perfection main bhala woh baat kahan? And routine is the last thing a creative mind needs. Thank god you failed……………….else, would have lost you. Hugs!
I can’t follow a time-table, but I am ok with that so long as I finish or sometimes even begin the tasks on hand. It just means we are flexible people and content with it!
Shail, I am also spontaneous – routine just bores me. Good job – go with the flow.
haha! LOL!!
Even I didn’t stick to my routine!! Sigh!
And I have no discipline whatsoever!! 😀
And yes, IB is a fab group and I completely love it!! 🙂
Such a honest post…love you Shail…my other half. 😀
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