Our author believes that the word everyday has a negative connotation. It sounds like boredom in the hamster wheel. Everyday life has a lot of good things to offer. And here are the reasons.
1. Everyday life creates structure
Getting up, breakfast, job, shopping, dinner, Netflix, bed: Sounds super boring, but it's really important to get through the days well. Everyday life ties us in and puts us in a frame. We can stick to it, orient ourselves and it helps, especially in extraordinary times like those we are experiencing right now, not to freak out.
2. Everyday life creates belonging
Whether in the day care center, school, office, sports club, knitting club or dog school, wherever we regularly meet people in our everyday life, it binds us and creates a sense of togetherness with which we identify and feel that we belong .
3. Everyday life makes you creative
Of course, everyday life is sometimes irritating and so boring or stressful that you want to fall dead from your chair. But the former makes you creative. After all, who likes to sit around bored and staring into the air for a long time? And in the best case scenario, the latter sets processes in motion. After all, self-reflection is the first step towards change.
4. Stabilized everyday life
Lovesickness from hell, a bereavement in the family, a painful divorce or mental illness – these are all times that throw life off course. Where you have the feeling that the world stands still and will never turn any further. As if it would never be good again and you just have to drag yourself through the day to get through exactly that the next day. Then it helps if we can shimmy along the everyday in order to survive the days hour after hour until they too get lighter again at some point.
5. Reduces the stress level
Yes, of course we know that everyday life can also be pure stress. But when everything goes as usual, for many of us it is more relaxed to follow the given daily schedule than to stumble from one surprise to the next, only to narrowly escape the heart attack every time. And if the everyday madness actually causes a lot of stress, we should urgently do something about it and think about our routines and habits – there is certainly still a lot to be done.