Routines

Dear grandmother,

Winter said goodbye with a great depression with the name « Martin ». Fortunately, this weekend changed the time. I hate the winter time.

There are days for everything. I still recently heard of “World Routine Day” and that routines provide us with stability and help reduce the occurrence of unforeseen events that can create a lot of stress and anxiety. Therefore, we must be aware that our body and our brain need to adapt to different dynamics of both productivity and rest.

Unlike you, who loves routines, if there is something that displeases me are routine things.

I confess that every day I go to the same gym, but for the sake of proximity. I always use the same clue, however, I have no scientific explanation for it.

So many people who go a lifetime of vacation to the same place, to the same beach, which, year after year, frequents the same restaurants, who takes the same breakfast every day… I love to vary.

It is a fact that every Friday I go to bread. But I don’t always buy the same bread.

Today I reach the building and find D. Lourdes in his routine of keeping the building’s entrance clean.

« So the boy went to bread? »

«It is true D. Lourdes. Today there are numerous varieties of bread to choose from. Integral, rye, wheat, corn, alcobaça, avintes bread, Alentejo, with raisins, gluten without… »

Elisabete Ferreira, from Bragança, was elected best baker in the world (and the jury didn’t even prove her bread). The organization of the prize focused on the valorization, sustainability and process of bakery bread that evaluate.

D. Lourdes ignores my conversation, continues her cleaning routine and says:

«I also like bread a lot. There is one that I like much more than these that mentioned, the Paulo Pires Bread. But in this hardly I will get my tooth »

Do not forget to hit the watches and keep your routines.

Kisses

Dear grandson,

I don’t tell me of depressions and storms.

The depression « Martin » was so strong that « my telecommunications » fied. I was days without internet, television and the like. Yes, a great depression.

You know I am to fulfill routines to the letter. Every day I go to the same terrace (rain or sun), lunch always in the same restaurants…

Sometimes, when I am in the morning on the Ericeira Beach Esplanade, friends who normally tell me, «I wish I would be like you, to be here without doing anything!»

And in fact, apparently I’m there, looking into the sea, doing nothing. But when I get home, I open the computer (I don’t like to take the computer to the beach) and just write what, in the morning I was « writing » on my head. Because doing nothing always takes a lot of work! Just think of Newton, so restless, almost sleeping in the shadow of a tree and suddenly falls an apple on her head and he discovers the law of gravity!

But I prefer the word « idleness » instead of the word « laziness. »

I explain.

When I was a girl, the aunt I lived with (and who always hellized my life) had a friend who was going to the house a lot – D. Innocence, I never forgot his name – who occasionally took him a book and always said:

«It is for your leisure hours».

She clung to the book, and as I read it, I didn’t call me and I could do what I wanted without her scolding. It was a happiness!

Therefore, since then the word « idleness » has been linked to these moments of intense happiness and freedom of my childhood, where I was loud to « work », read books and imagine other stories after reading them.

This is why the word laziness, for me, does not have the same meaning that (almost) everyone gives it.

D. Lourdes has great taste. I, who am of routines, stay for the bread of Mafra.

See if you create routines.

Kisses