Capricorn
Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people as much as the artist. But they do not see it because they are not trying to shed light on it.
Marcel Proust, Time Regained
The morning habits you built to get somewhere specific stop working the day you arrive there, but they keep running anyway. You still wake at the same time, follow the same steps, hold the same posture at your desk, even though the original reason has been accomplished or abandoned. What felt like discipline starts to feel like sleepwalking. The hardest part of changing a routine is not the logistics of the new version but admitting that the old version was serving a goal you no longer remember choosing. Some mornings the most radical thing you can do is ask yourself what you are still preparing for.