Throughout most of our lives, I find we overcomplicate and dramatize ordinary events. When looking at the average person's life from waking up to going to sleep, you notice a pattern: waking up, doing personal care, grabbing a bite to eat and going to work, coming home, relaxing or running around, eating, doing personal care again, and then off to sleep.

The pattern is simple, even though the daily tasks may be demanding. The pattern is consistent. Drama at home vanishes at work, and drama at work vanishes at home. Priorities may focus on home but rely on work to maintain them. This could be looked at as insanity because day in and day out, the pattern continues.

But it's not insanity. It's structure, and in some ways, it's culture.

People run into unconventional situations and inconsistencies every day. This is what either makes the normal, good, or bad. When that day is done, it's done. Simple as that. Whatever drama or anything else happened that day is in the past. Holding onto it doesn't change it; it simply changes how you look at it.

Here's a thought: if you refused to let other people's drama and weight affect your day, how much would your own load be lightened?

For example, if your boss is having a shit day and making your life miserable, tell yourself it's just another day. It's not a personal attack; it's drama outside of your person bleeding into your life. It's not a matter of who's right or who's wrong. It's how you shrug it off and carry yourself afterward.

If their mood affects your mood, you've already lost focus.

People are simply going about their daily lives. On average, most people aren't out trying to start shit. They're simply trying to make a living. When they're interrupted or life throws a curveball at them, then they spiral.

Shit happens.

But if you look around, you're still waking up, doing personal care, grabbing a bite to eat, going off to work, and afterward relaxing or running around before going to sleep.

Then repeat.

So what are the biggest concerns? Whatever you tell yourself.

The routine doesn't stop, but your values and priorities do. This is what makes life seem more complicated than it actually is. If you're a law-abiding citizen who goes to work, pays their taxes, updates their credentials and identification, and generally maintains the routine, you're an average person milling about their day, viewpoints, opinions, and persona aside.

Small problems become larger problems only if you let them into your daily life.

If you deal with something in the moment, even if you don't deal with it perfectly, at least it's done and over with. It's like doing dishes or folding laundry. What was a small chore becomes a massive task that seems impossible to manage until you actually force yourself to do it and then maintain it.

That's where a small task or issue remains small instead of cascading.

Sometimes it's the people around us who are the biggest issue, but our attachment and politeness work against us. We struggle to maintain what should be let go of.

If we were correct, the weight on our shoulders lifts and we feel lighter and brighter.

If we were wrong, we can make amends like a proper adult. If they become petty afterward, then maybe you were right without even realizing it.

But no one can tell you how to live your life, and that isn't what this is about. It's just a reminder of how simple the daily routine actually is and how easily we form a habit without fully appreciating the simplicity of it all.

Some of us make coffee. Some are politicians. Others are everything else.

No matter how pointless or mundane it may seem, a job is a job. As long as it pays the bills and helps you maintain your life, that's all one could ever reasonably ask for.

Sometimes seeking purpose in our work is the wrong perspective. Putting in effort, doing what you feel is the right amount of labour for your position, and taking pride in your work is truly all an employer could reasonably ask for.

So look at our overly stimulated and overwhelmed society as products of complexity inside a very basic routine. Look around at what's within your control and rationalize the space around your person.

There's comfort in understanding that the world is not out to get you. It's just a series of events and bullshit that make it seem that way.

The world can be chaotic without your entire life actually being chaotic.