The aspirational routine to which we’re pinning our hopes of being better is more like a mirage. Although we strive for it, we rarely reach what it promises, and the reason for this is the variance inherent in our days—in our energy, in our interests, in our interactions, in our everyday chaos. A perfectly ordered life will always remain outside the imperfect reality of our daily lives. We can place so much emphasis on adhering to an aspirational order of things, but often the day has other ideas. We shouldn’t bear yet another layer of guilt, anxiety, or shame because we haven’t followed a
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