hahahahaha...i'm so amused...my life has this way of repeating itself, whether i want it to or not

not that it's a bad or anything...in this case, it could actually be a very good thing, but still, i find it really amusing.

Which makes me think..do humans do this just out of habit? is this just the way that humans work, that everyone follows a pattern in their life without realizing it?

If you’ve ever read Cien Años de Soledad by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (and you really should read it if you haven’t yet), you’ll remember that there’s this one part where Ursula, one of the main characters starts to go blind, but by simply remembering everyone’s every day routine, she knows where everyone and everything is. When Fernanda loses her ring, Ursula only has to think of what Fernanda did that day that deviated from her normal routine to figure out where the ring went (even though she’s blind).

So what does this mean? What does this mean about humans? We were at the Parque Nacional in Uruapan yesterday, and there’s this random fish farm smack in the middle of this jungle-looking park. Lots of people stop there, feed the fish, and move on again. But I stood there looking at the fish for a long time. Because it suddenly hit me (even though it’s so obvious), that they all just move in the same pattern, over and over again. Even the ones who deviated from their pattern still went back to the same pattern again in the end. And I suppose they must be pretty content. What do they THINK about all day?

Does this mean that humans should stick to their daily routine all the time to stay happy? After all, don’t most people not like change in their routine? It makes sense that we like to be comforted by what we KNOW and what we’re used to everyday. But yet, we still take risks. We deviate from our routine and do different things all the time. And sometimes (a lot of the times), we get screwed over. Yet, this is what makes us progress and move forward. Is this it? Is THIS what makes us human, as opposed to everything else in nature?

I guess I'm just in a really strangely pensive mood right now.