Routines

There was a time, around an year ago or so, when this blog was frantically updated. As of today I have yet to find out where did I found the strenght, the inspiration, the ideas (or the lack of ideas, to be more accurate) to do so. I'm quieter now. I'm also less inspired, and more bored. From one year ago to now, many things have changed. I've not been permanentely happy (fortunately), but happiness has knocked on my door a handful of times since then. We all know that happiness is not a good writing motive or source of inspiration.

Anyway. I find interesting to see how the nature of relationships might change with the passing of time, but what sustains a relationship remains the same: routines. We tend to think that a relationship is slowly but steadily killed when it falls into routine, but that's nothing but a misconception: surprise, novelty and risk might spice up a relationship and give it new air to breathe, but the true sustainer of the relationship is routine. And by routine I understand all the little things a couple does together on a regular basis - be it having lunch every day on the same spot (because there is no place like it), eating the packet of nachos together in the first scene of the movie, steal chips from the other's dish, playing a game together at night, etc. It only gets boring if both people allow it to, really.